abstract The maker movement has been heralded as a place-based strategy to invigorate urban manufacturing—offering the millennial generation access to affordable, high-quality technologies and inclusive marketing platforms through which to design new products and get them into the hands of design-savvy consumers. Yet it also offers significant place-crossing opportunities that have been overlooked, namely, the potential for the production needs of urban-based makers to be a resource for shoring up manufacturing communities beyond the metropolis at growing risk of being left behind. We demonstrate this possibility through an in-depth case study of the Carolina Textile District (CTD), a novel value chain experiment that helps incumbent textile manufacturers in more remote legacy industrial regions connect with and lend support to a new generation of urban-based textile designers and entrepreneurs. We argue the CTD is an innovative distributive platform that transforms the shared vulnerability of urban makers and rural manufacturers into productive and opportunity-rich relationships, fortified by the millennial-maker ethos of forging high-road supply chains in support of social equity and environmental sustainability. As the maker movement gains traction within planning and policy circles, the CTD offers lessons for how to intensify and de-risk interdependencies between nonmetro and urban regions; between old and new manufacturing clusters; and, ultimately, between blue-collar communities and urban-oriented millennial youth. Conceptually, the case speaks to the need for economic geographers to be more attentive to place-connecting industrial strategies in their growing call for spatial equity.

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Maker-Manufacturing Nexus 作为地方连接策略：对“落后”地区的影响

摘要 创客运动被认为是一种以地方为基础的战略，以振兴城市制造业——为千禧一代提供负担得起的高质量技术和包容性营销平台，通过这些平台设计新产品并将其交到精通设计的手中消费者。然而，它也提供了被忽视的重要跨地机会，即城市制造商的生产需求有可能成为支撑大都市以外制造社区的资源，而这些社区的落后风险越来越大。我们通过对卡罗莱纳州纺织区 (CTD) 的深入案例研究证明了这种可能性，一项新颖的价值链实验，可帮助更偏远的传统工业地区的现有纺织品制造商与新一代城市纺织品设计师和企业家建立联系并为其提供支持。我们认为 CTD 是一个创新的分销平台，它将城市制造商和农村制造商的共同脆弱性转变为生产性和机会丰富的关系，由千禧一代制造商打造高速供应链以支持社会公平和环境可持续性的精神得到加强. 随着创客运动在规划和政策圈内越来越受到关注，CTD 为如何加强非都市地区和城市地区之间的相互依存关系和降低风险提供了经验教训；新旧制造业集群之间；最终，在蓝领社区和面向城市的千禧一代之间。