Goods movement and metropolitan inequality

While most studies of globalization focus on runaway production, information technology, the rise of financial sectors, and human mobility, scholars tend to ignore the role that expanded commodity distribution networks play in metropolitan development (Aoyama et al. 2006; Dicken 2007; Hesse 2002). Nonetheless, many of the same global economic restructuring that reshaped American cities in the post-1970s era, especially the reterritorialization of global production networks, fashioned the necessary spaces to facilitate finance, information, and commodity flows. In the process, this new global production order and emerging spaces of distribution have reconfigured the territoriality of race and class.