From Taylorization Through to the Structuring of the Territory of the Autonomous Region of Valencia. New Urban Networks and Hierarchies

Abstract

Urban growth and industrialization have ever gone hand-in-hand. The spatial organization of the economic
set up of Valencia was born of this marriage. Comparative advantage rather than policies for any sector let
alone regional planning were drive and enough for the burgeoning growth of her cities, this for sure, marked
by a marked specialization in their products. The crisis that hit sub-sector manufacturing there has led to
a restructuring process and a coming into line with new co-ordinates. At the macro-economic level, Post-Fordism
is making itself felt spatially throughout the region ranging new sectorial demands against regional territorial
planning whereas at the micro-economic one, local public strategies along with private business sector others
have made of the territory of the region a sought after commodity considered as being an economic space that
generates concrete economic resources and value. The paper centres upon an analysis of the industrial
change and urban undergone from taylorist structures on to post-fordian and neo-fordian others and how
these have been impinged upon by regional policy (keynsian and neo-liberal) and again individualized novel
local strategy. The crisis in modern planning is thus presented to highlight the modalities of post-modern
city industry. An attempt is thus assayed to rate the consequences of the distinct policy approaches to the
question of regional vertebration in terms of their upshot for territorial equity.