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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Silver, Jonathan
• Wiig, Alan

Titel

How China's Silk Road urbanism is changing cities

Ist Teil von

• Logistics and Transport Focus, 2020-01, Vol.22 (1), p.26

Ort / Verlag

Corby: Institute of Logistics and Transport

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Silver and Wiig examine how China's Silk Road urbanism transforms cities across the world. They highlight the initiatives that are reshaping infrastructure and city spaces from London, England to Kampala, Uganda. A massive redevelopment of the old Royal Albert Dock in East London is transforming the derelict waterfront to a gleaming business district. In 2018, authorities in Kampala celebrated as a ferry on Lake Victoria was unloaded with goods from the Indian Ocean, on to a rail service into the city. This transport hub was the final part of the Central Corridor project, aimed at connecting landlocked Uganda to Dares Salaam and the Indian Ocean. Both of these huge projects are part of the $1 trillion global infrastructure investment that is China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). China's ambition to reshape the world economy has sparked massive infrastructure projects spanning all the way from Western Europe to East Africa, and beyond. The nation is engaging in what has been called as Silk Road urbanism, reimagining the historic transcontinental trade route as a global project to bring the cities into the orbit of the Chinese economy.