Collective Order and Economic Coordination in Industrial Agglomerations: The Technopoles of Southern California

Scott, Allen J.; Paul, Arpan

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“…Given the problem of local fiscal dependence, there is competition between local jurisdictions for fiscally productive land uses; this is a competition, moreover, that is intensified by the endemic political fragmentation of metropolitan areas. Occasionally, this does call for cooperative forms of economic governance at the regional level (Cox and Jonas 1993;Cox 1997; see Scott and Paul 1990).…”

Section: Property Externalities Resources and Land-use Conflict In mentioning

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Sage Scrub Revolution? Property Rights, Political Fragmentation, and Conservation Planning in Southern California under the Federal Endangered Species Act

Feldman

Jonas

2000

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

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In the U.S., conservation planning under the federal Endangered Species Act (ESA) has increasingly applied to species and habitats located on private property in urbanizing regions. Under the ESAs Section 10(a), habitat conservation plans (HCPs) provide mechanisms for local governments, private landowners, and other stakeholders to proceed with development plans while at the same time undertaking conservation measures for federally listed species. Using a "reconstructed urban regime theory" approach to local policymaking, this paper examines the development of a subregional HCP for the protection of the federally listed Stephens' Kangaroo Rat (SKR) in western Riverside County, Southern California. Empirically, we demonstrate problems of incorporating property externalities into a subregional planning process and the various ways in which landowners and local progrowth interests have mobilized in response to HCPs developed within the federal ESA framework. Theoretically, we emphasize uneven development within Southern California's suburban-oriented mode of social regulation, which also provides a structural context for evaluating recent moves toward multispecies and ecosystem planning under the State of California's Natural Communities Conservation Planning (NCCP) framework. A pilot NCCP program for the coastal sage scrub ecosystem is fragmenting into a loosely coordinated amalgam of subregional HCPs developed under diverse local policy regimes. The paper critically discusses the extent to which ecosystem planning in Southern California represents a revolution in the role of the U.S. government in managing conflicts arising from conservation measures on private property in urbanizing regions.

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Sage Scrub Revolution? Property Rights, Political Fragmentation, and Conservation Planning in Southern California under the Federal Endangered Species Act

Feldman

Jonas

2000

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

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“…Leading suburban cities of Chinese-owned businesses, San Gabriel Valley, Los Angeles County, 1991 grated firms (Scott 1988, 174). Second, firms can take advantage of labor supply and provision of common business and social services, and in so doing save on external economies and improve flexibility in the labor market (Scott 1988;Scott and Paul 1990;Storper and Walker 1989;Walker 1988). Intensive use of interfirm networks in turn is associated with territorial agglomeration, mainly for three reasons: first, spatial proximity can substantially reduce the transaction costs among many smaller units.…”

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Beyond Ethnic Enclaves: Location Strategies of Chinese Producer Service Firms in Los Angeles

Zhou¹

1998

Economic Geography

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JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org.. Clark University is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Economic Geography.Abstract: Ethnic enclaves are often not only the main residential areas for ethnic populations but also the prime locations for their businesses. As more and more ethnic enterprises locate outside such enclaves, the spatial pattern of ethnic business becomes more complex. To understand the spatial pattern of ethnic business, I argue that we need to go beyond treating "ethnic" as the only adjective. Drawing from the literature on industrial networks and territorial agglomeration, I examine the location patterns of ethnic producer services and their interfirm transaction networks. Chinese-owned firms in three types of producer services of Los Angeles County were selected: accounting, banking, and computer distribution. I collected information on networks and locations through surveys, interviews, and directories. This research found that location strategies are extremely important for ethnic entrepreneurs to exploit their market niches in all three sectors. While Chinese firms show markedly different spatial patterns from their non-Chinese counterparts, each type of producer service also differs from the others in spatial pattern. Accounting offices and bank branches concentrate in the Chinese central business district because of their Chinese-client-oriented network. A number of larger bank headquarters find downtown Los Angeles a favorable location because they are seeking international recognition and closer integration with mainstream financial institutions. Computer firms locate at the fringe of Chinese-concentrated areas and cluster with other Chinese computer distributors to participate in a product pool so that parts can be exchanged faster. I conclude that the spatial organization of ethnic business needs to be understood as the outcome of interaction between cultural and industrial identities of enterprises.Ethnic communities such as Chinatown, Little Italy, Koreantown, and Little Havana have long been a distinctive part of the American urban landscape. These enclaves not only serve as the main residential areas for ethnic populations, but also are identified as the prime locations for their businesses. In the last two decades, however, * This article was prepared as part of

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“…Indeed, such arguments are pervaded by a heavy dose of functionalism concerning the necessary link between post-Fordist accumulation strategies and territorial decentralisation. One alternative is that globalisation has simply encouraged a reciprocal process of political (3) Governance regionalisation has been demonstrated, in particular, with respect to innovation strategy and labour-market governance (Peck, 1996;Perulli, 1993;Scott and Paul, 1990). localisationöpolitical activism on a range of issues (for example, opposition to infrastructural developments, such as airports; workforce responses to plant closure, etc) is increasingly evident at, and yet often confined to, the local scale (Preteceille, 1990).…”

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Rescaling and Regional Governance: The English Regional Development Agencies and the Environment

Gibbs

Jonas

2001

Environ Plann C Gov Policy

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The establishment of Regional Development Agencies (RDAs) in the English regions will bring about an important change in UK regional governance. A key area of contention and struggle is likely to occur over the contribution of the RDAs to sustainable development. Although the pursuit of sustainable development is a stated goal of the RDAs, in this paper we argue that this goal is likely to be compromised by tensions and contradictions emerging in the evolving new governance landscape of England. In terms of promoting sustainable-development policy, the regional scale of the UK state is becoming materially and discursively significant, and a particular focus of struggles around economic and environmental issues. These struggles strategically intersect with wider processes of reregulation and rescaling in the UK state. We not only consider the practical policy implications of integrating the economy and environment at the regional scale, but also analyse emerging tensions in regional governance in the light of processes of social reregulation and rescaling within the UK state. We argue that theoretical approaches to the latter need to incorporate the uneven process of rescaling and the contingent nature of regional state forms and institutions.

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Collective Order and Economic Coordination in Industrial Agglomerations: The Technopoles of Southern California

Cited by 39 publications

References 6 publications

Sage Scrub Revolution? Property Rights, Political Fragmentation, and Conservation Planning in Southern California under the Federal Endangered Species Act

Sage Scrub Revolution? Property Rights, Political Fragmentation, and Conservation Planning in Southern California under the Federal Endangered Species Act

Beyond Ethnic Enclaves: Location Strategies of Chinese Producer Service Firms in Los Angeles

Rescaling and Regional Governance: The English Regional Development Agencies and the Environment

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