M Storper - Journal of economic geography, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Explaining the growth and change of regions and cities is one of the great challenges for social science. The field of economic geography and associated economics has developed …
S Sassen - Urban geography, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
In this essay, I engage the LA-Chicago debate by repositioning both area-specific constraints and visual orders as intermediary variables. This leads the discussion to two …
The paradox in urban economics over the last thirty years is that agglomeration economies (and diseconomies) are the driving force behind explanations of geographical concentration …
G Duranton, M Storper - Journal of Economic Geography, 2006 - academic.oup.com
This special issue contains papers by both economists and geographers on agglomeration and growth. In this introduction, we first provide a brief sketch of recent developments in the …
RA Walker - International Journal of Urban and Regional …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Why do cities exist? Geographers Allen Scott and Michael Storper recently put the question before the field of urban studies and provided a clear and concise answer in terms of …
M Boddy - Urban studies, 1999 - journals.sagepub.com
1. Introduction to national prosperity and the threat todeveloped'nations posed by cheap labour in developing countries. He has also addressed questions around the clustering and …
The turbulence of the current times has dramatically transformed the world's economic geographies. The scale and scope of such changes require urgent attention. With …
Agglomeration economies are a fundamental explanation for the existence of cities. Spatial clustering allows for a variety of external benefits such as labor pooling, sharing of suppliers …
The new Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics: Cities and Geography reviews, synthesizes and extends the key developments in urban and regional economics and their …