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Zusatztext "Storper and his colleagues have crafted a sweeping yet nuanced account of how the economies of metropolitan Los Angeles and San Francisco have steadily diverged over the past several decades. Their interpretation, based on a wealth of data and interviews, has important lessons for many urban regions struggling to maintain or improve their place in the global economy." Informationen zum Autor Michael Storper is Professor of Urban Planning at the University of California, Los Angeles. Thomas Kemeny is Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Southampton. Naji Makarem is Lecturer in the Bartlett Development Planning Unit (DPU) at University College London (UCL). Taner Osman is an instructor in the Department of Urban Planning at the University of California, Los Angeles. Klappentext Michael Storper is Professor of Urban Planning at the University of California, Los Angeles. Thomas Kemeny is Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Southampton. Naji Makarem is Lecturer in the Bartlett Development Planning Unit (DPU) at University College London (UCL). Taner Osman is an instructor in the Department of Urban Planning at the University of California, Los Angeles. Zusammenfassung 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 of other American metropolises. Yet! in 1970! experts would have predicted that L.A. would outpace San Francisco in population! income! economic power! and influence. The usual factors used to explain urban growth-luck! immigration! local economic policies! and the pool of skilled labor-do not account for the contrast between the two cities and their fates. So what does? The Rise and Fall of Urban Economies challenges many of the conventional notions about economic development and sheds new light on its workings. The authors argue that it is essential to understand the interactions of three major components-economic specialization! human capital formation! and institutional factors-to determine how well a regional economy will cope with new opportunities and challenges. Drawing on economics! sociology! political science! and geography! they argue that the economic development of metropolitan regions hinges on previously underexplored capacities for organizational change in firms! networks of people! and networks of leaders. By studying San Francisco and Los Angeles in unprecedented levels of depth! this book extracts lessons for the field of economic development studies and urban regions around the world. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents and Abstracts1The Divergent Development of City Regions chapter abstract Economic development is geographically uneven; incomes differ widely across places. After a long period during which incomes tended to become more even across cities and regions within developed countries, they are now diverging again. In 1970, the San Francisco Bay Area and Greater Los Angeles regions had very similar per capita incomes; in 2012, Los Angeles was almost 30 percent lower than the Bay Area. Understanding this process of divergence, which is widespread among metropolitan regions around the world, is a window on understanding economic development more generally. 2Divergent Development: The Conceptual Challenge chapter abstract Innumerable forces influence economic development, and research on it uses many different methods and comes from several disciplines. Four theoretical fields that contribute to understanding divergent economic development of city regions are development theory, regional science and urban economics, the new economic geography, and the social science of institutions. Together, they provide a robust framework for understanding convergence and divergence in economic development. 3The Moto...
