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Utilities, Land-Use Change, and Urban Development: Brownfield Sites as ‘Cold-Spots’ of Infrastructure Networks in Berlin

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    (Institut für Regionalentwicklung und Strukturplanung/Institute for Regional Development and Structural Planning (IRS), Flakenstraße 28-31, D 15537 Erkner bei Berlin, Germany)

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This paper explores the interrelationships between urban land use, resource consumption, and utility service provision with a study of brownfield regeneration—from an infrastructure perspective. Drawing on recent research into the spatial strategies of utility companies, after liberalisation and privatisation, I identify disused industrial sites as ‘cold-spots’ of infrastructure systems where energy and water consumption has recently collapsed. Using a case study of Berlin I analyse first the challenges facing the city's three major utilities as a result of shifting patterns of resource consumption and overcapacity in parts of their networks. In the second part I examine the responses of the three utilities to these challenges in the context of recent institutional changes to infrastructure provision; exploring how the utilities are moving towards greater spatial differentiation in their network management and what interest they have in brownfield regeneration.

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  • Timothy Moss, 2003. "Utilities, Land-Use Change, and Urban Development: Brownfield Sites as ‘Cold-Spots’ of Infrastructure Networks in Berlin," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 35(3), pages 511-529, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:envira:v:35:y:2003:i:3:p:511-529
    DOI: 10.1068/a3548
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    1. Simon Guy & Stephen Graham & Simon Marvin, 1996. "Privatized Utilities and Regional Governance: The New Regional Managers?," Regional Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 30(8), pages 733-739.
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