ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with the policy and governance dimension of logistics and freight distribution, related land uses, and circulation modes. It examines how these strategies are being pursued and explores the way in which logistics are discursively framed and thus communicatively constructed. It underlines how contested and contradictory such issues are in the context of urban and regional practices, which leaves a big challenge for the political process. The chapter is particularly concerned with the question of how urban places and transport networks are being 'co-constructed' through the practices of mobility and circulation. It explores the diffuse and contested field of local, economic development strategies focusing on logistics and freight transport, precisely by highlighting such issues of co-construction, discursive framing, and imagination. Finally it concludes by reflecting on the relevance of this co-construction of economic development and intersecting places and flows for political processes, and why it deserves more recognition in research and practice.
