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 …

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 …

ÔThis is vintage Allen Scott, but also a tour dÕhorizon of the state of urban studies, 2012, by
one of its foremost global practitioners: compulsory reading. Õ Ð Peter Hall, University …

This is a period of massive changes for cities and communities. Economic globalization and
the ascendance of information technologies are reconfiguring the spatial organization of the …

Cities and Economies explores the complex and subtle connections between cities and
economies. The rise of the merchant city, the development of the industrial city and the …

This collection of essays provides a review and restatement of concepts and analytical
insights about the relations between the dynamics of the production system and urban …

Does globalization menace our cities? Are cities able to exercise democratic rule and
strategic choice when international competition increasingly limits the importance of place …

In the examination of urban politics, governance, and economics, the way in which social
differences and disagreements about the use of urban space play out in the real world are of …

Contesting the widespread notion in the 1980s that place no longer mattered to highly
digitized economic sectors turned out to be the first step towards conceptualizing the Global …

The economic restructuring that has gone on since the 1980s has produced a new
economic space in which service and high tech firms are at the forefront of innovation. One …