For most of the twentieth century, the Los Angeles region had one of the county's best
performing economies. But now, incomes of those in the San Francisco Bay area outpace …

This book forum reports an outcome of the authors-meet-the-critics session organized for the
2016 American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, which took place …

MIAMI HAS UNDERGONE a radical transformation in the last three decades. No aspect of its
political, economic, or social condition has been left unchanged. The most striking difference …

America's first truly twenty-first-century metropolis, Los Angeles is often depicted as diverse,
fragmented, polarized, and ungovernable, a city without a unifying geographic center or civic …

A Stanford University Three Books Selection for 2019 “Essential.… A conflicted and complex
portrait of a city starving for solutions.”—Brandon Yu, San Francisco Chronicle San …

The giant sums of money spinning around San Francisco in recent years, fueled by a
booming tech sector, have generated hordes of 20-something millionaires and thousands …

Cast as a “whodunit,” the authors contrast—over the course of 11 chapters—the economic
experiences of the two principal cities in California since about 1970. The authors set out to …

In the Loop: A Political and Economic History of San Antonio, is the culmination of urban
historian David Johnson's extensive research into the development of Texas's oldest city …

In recent decades, some cities with a strong history of manufacturing have been able to
make the switch to a strong knowledge economy, and thus have maintained a relative level …

This thoughtful and eclectic volume addresses one issue: Given that the two urban regions
recently enjoyed the same level of economic development, why did San Francisco surge so …