Mapping Amazon's logistical footprint on the Ruhr: How a tech company is influencing cities, cluster politics and climates

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in: Platforms & Society, Jahrgang 2, 2025.

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title = "Mapping Amazon's logistical footprint on the Ruhr: How a tech company is influencing cities, cluster politics and climates",
abstract = "Today, the networks of digital platforms are deeply intertwined with our everyday topographies. One of the giants of the industry is Amazon, the world's largest e-commerce company. Over the past decade, it has become our neighbour, employer and critical public infrastructure provider – a standard in modern city life. For the Ruhr metropolis in Germany, Amazon epitomizes a transformative force for shaping the historically industrial region into a warehouse for Europe. It brings with it the promise of turning the region into a service sector hub. With its extensive logistics and delivery operations, however, Amazon is building onto already existing (public) infrastructures, past and present: Drawing on the example of the logistical cluster at the Westfalenh{\"u}tte in the north-east of Dortmund, a 612.000-resident city in Western Germany, this paper maps out how deeply rooted in (and dependent on) industrial histories {\textquoteleft}innovative{\textquoteright} contemporary developments by tech companies are. From the ground to the cloud, it reveals the various layers of public local infrastructure that Amazon is settling on to, profiting off of – or even taking over.",
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