Chinitz, like Marshall, is better known as a seminal theorist of the urban supply side than for
his useful insights on continental economic regeneration. This paper draws on both themes …

Today, the Bay Area is home to the most successful knowledge economy in America, while
Los Angeles has fallen progressively further behind its neighbor to the north and a number …

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 article examines several major structural trends contributing to the shift from the
Keynesian routinized city to the strategic city that begins to emerge in the 1980s. Among the …

Since cities are likely to play an even more predominant role in the global economy in the
future than they do at present, it is important to understand how urban centers are created …

Since cities are likely to play an even more predominant role in the global economy in the
future than they do at present, it is important to understand how urban centers are created …

This book challenges the notion that there is a single, global process of economic
restructuring to which cities must submit. The studies in this volume compare urban …

Sometime in the middle of the 1970s, geographers and other social scientists awoke to the
reality of a major spatial realignment of population and productive activity which had …

One of the defining issues in the transition from agrarian to industrial society is the role
played by urbanization in the creation of industrial modernity. The approach to this issue …

The local effects of contemporary global economic restructuring processes are readily
observed but not easily understood. Anyone walking down Broadway in Los Angeles, Colfax …