ABSTRACT Today, establishing zones for globally-oriented free enterprise is a common strategy of post-industrial urban revitalization and economic development. These large-scale projects typically operate through neoliberal governance and planning that facilitates undemocratic control and privatized administration of the zones. With a case study of the Philadelphia Navy Yard, this paper argues that these spaces embody a “non-plan” of competitive capitalist urbanization governed by and for global firms. However, the present-absence of municipal and state-level oversight itself represents a political decision, to provide place-based incentives without then managing this process. The Navy Yard allowed an unelected public–private partnership to determine how to best use the space, while also offering significant, publicly funded tax subsidies. Although lauded as “successful” by city politicians, the Navy Yard’s publicly-funded private benefit did little to reduce longstanding divides in the city, furthering a new era of spatial and political fragmentation.

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费城的激励城市化：全球化地区的地方政治

摘要 今天，建立面向全球的自由企业区是后工业城市振兴和经济发展的共同战略。这些大型项目通常通过新自由主义治理和规划运作，促进对区域的非民主控制和私有化管理。通过对费城海军造船厂的案例研究，本文认为这些空间体现了由全球公司治理并为全球公司治理的竞争性资本主义城市化的“非计划”。然而，目前缺乏市级和州级监督本身就代表了一种政治决定，即提供基于地点的激励措施而不管理这个过程。海军造船厂允许未经选举产生的公私合作伙伴关系来决定如何最好地利用该空间，同时还提供大量的公共资助的税收补贴。