The steady globalization of economic activity over the last few decades has intensified the assertion of the region as a critical locus of economic order and as a potent foundation of competitive advantage. This book is a wide-ranging exploration of the economic logic and political meaning of such developments. It presents the economic geography of the modern world as an emerging global mosaic of regional systems of production and exchange.

Regions and the World Economy: The Coming Shape of Global Production, Competition, and Political Order

Business & Money

Scott, Allen J.

Economics

Oxford University Press

Focusing on the theme of the mutually constitutive relations between geographic space and the economic order, Allen J. Scott discusses the problems of the location of economic activities, learning and innovation in industrial systems, and economic development. These problems are dealt with in both theoretical and empirical terms.

Geography and Economy (Clarendon Lectures in Geography and Environmental Studies)

This book is about the renaissance of cities in the twenty first century and their increasing role as centers of creative economic activity. It attempts to put some conceptual and descriptive order around issues of urbanization in the contemporary world, emphasizing the idea of the social economy of the metropolis, which is to say, a view of the urban organism as an intertwined system of social and economic life played out through the arena of urban space. The book opens with a review of some essentials of urban theory, the book aims to re-articulate the urban question in a way that is relevant to city life and politics in the present era. It then analyses the functional characteristics of the urban economy, with special reference to the rise of a group of core sectors such as media, fashion, music, etc., focused on cognitive and cultural forms of work. These sectors are growing with great rapidity in the world's largest cities at the present time, and they play a major role in the urban resurgence that has been occurring of late. The discussion then explores the spatial ramifications of this new economy in cities and the ways in which it appears to be ushering in major shifts in divisions of labor and urban social stratification, as marked by a growing divide between a stratum of elite workers on the one side and a low-wage proletariat on the other. Allen Scott is one of the world's foremost thinkers on the economies of modern cities, and in this book presents a concise introduction to his innovative and insightful perspective.

Social Economy of the Metropolis: Cognitive-Cultural Capitalism and the Global Resurgence of Cities

Urbanization and Urban Planning in Capitalist Society

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Politics & Social Sciences

Dear, Michael J.

Politics & Government

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Metropolis: From the Division of Labor to Urban Form

Here is an extensive and highly original inquiry into the origins, dynamics, and internal order of the modern metropolis. Allen J. Scott demonstrates how the metropolis emerges out of the basic mechanisms of production and work in contemporary society, and how those mechanisms guide general patterns of urban development. His work will be stimulating to social scientists and to planners and policy makers as well.

University of California Press

Technopolis is a timely theoretical and empirical investigation of the world's largest high-technology industrial complex—Southern California. Allen Scott provides a new conceptual framework for understanding urban and regional growth processes based on a combination of inter-industrial, labor market, and geographical factors. He presents case studies and original data on three major industries that have become synonymous with Southern California: aircraft and parts, missiles and space equipment, and electronics. The business community will be particularly interested in Scott's diagnosis of post-Cold War economic ills and his suggestions for possible remedies. In good times or bad, knowledge of how Southern California's high-tech industry and regional development have interacted in the past and might interact in the future will be invaluable for regional and economic planners everywhere.

Technopolis: High-Technology Industry and Regional Development in Southern California

Los Angeles has grown from a scattered collection of towns and villages to one of the largest megacities in the world. In the process, it has inspired controversy among critics and scholars, as well as among its residents. Seeking original perspectives rather than consensus, the editors of The City have assembled a variety of essays examining the built environment and human dynamics of this extraordinary modern city, emphasizing the dramatic changes that have occurred since 1960. Together the essays―by experts in urban planning, architecture, geography, and sociology―create a new kind of urban analysis, one that is open to diversity but strongly committed to collective theoretical and practical understanding.

The City: Los Angeles and Urban Theory at the End of the Twentieth Century

History

Soja, Edward W.

Americas

Here is an extensive and highly original inquiry into the origins, dynamics, and internal order of the modern metropolis. Allen J. Scott demonstrates how the metropolis emerges out of the basic mechanisms of production and work in contemporary society, and how those mechanisms guide general patterns of urban development. His work will be stimulating to social scientists and to planners and policy makers as well.\nThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1988.

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Regions and the World Economy: The Coming Shape of Global Production, Competition, and Political Order

Regions and the World Economy: The Coming Shape of Global Production, Competition, and Political Order

Geography and Economy (Clarendon Lectures in Geography and Environmental Studies)

Social Economy of the Metropolis: Cognitive-Cultural Capitalism and the Global Resurgence of Cities

Urbanization and Urban Planning in Capitalist Society

Metropolis: From the Division of Labor to Urban Form

Metropolis: From the Division of Labor to Urban Form

Technopolis: High-Technology Industry and Regional Development in Southern California

The City: Los Angeles and Urban Theory at the End of the Twentieth Century

Metropolis: From the Division of Labor to Urban Form