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 …

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 …

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 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 …

Why do some cities grow economically while others decline? Why do some show sustained
economic performance while others cycle up and down? In Keys to the City, Michael …

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

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 …

Some cities seem destined to become major financial capitals, yet never do--Seville, for
instance, was the centre of Spain's opulent New World Empire, but failed to become a …

Written in a non-technical, narrative style, this book is an invaluable resource for anyone
concerned with current trends in urban development. During the Reagan era, responsibility …

America's inner cities, particularly those in older industrial metropolitan areas, have declined
sharply in both population and employment over the past two decades. How much of this …