Globalizing L.A.: Trade, Infrastructure, and Regional Development - Softcover

Erie, Steven

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0804746818 ISBN 13: 9780804746816

Publisher: Stanford University Press, 2004

Synopsis

How do city-regions successfully compete in the global age? Mixing history and policy analysis, Steven Erie offers a compelling account of the improbable rise of Los Angeles, explaining how a region with no natural harbor and a metropolis situated a distant 20 miles from the coast managed to become the world's ninth largest economy and a leading trade and transportation center. In Globalizing L.A., he argues that physical infrastructure development was a catalytic yet underappreciated factor in the transformation of L.A. and Southern California into a global economy, provocatively challenging the conventional wisdom that emphasizes information flows, intellectual property rights, or social capital. The book also highlights the unheralded role of local political institutions and public entrepreneurs in shaping the region's development, growth, and globalization.

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From the Back Cover

“In this compelling, exhaustively researched study, Steven P. Erie offers a preeminent example of how global and local energies are converging to create a new kind of global city and a new kind of global economy.”—Dr. Kevin Starr, State Librarian of California
“Steven Erie provides a distinctive and persuasive analysis of political strategies that have been central to shaping the growth of the complex Los Angeles region. The book should be of much interest to scholars who are concerned with the development of the L.A. region and the role of semi-autonomous governments in the United States and beyond.”—Jameson Doig, Princeton University

About the Author

Steven Erie is Director of the Urban Studies and Planning Program and Professor of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego. His first book, Rainbow's End: Irish Americans and the Dilemmas of Urban Machine Politics (UC Press, 1998) received the American Sociological Association's Robert Park Award for the best book in urban sociology and the American Political Science Association's award for the best book in urban politics.

Edition details

• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0804746818
• ISBN 13: 9780804746816
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 330