Urban Analysis as Merchandising: The “LA School” and the Understanding of Metropolitan Development

Gottdiener, Mark

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“…Dear (2000) describes an emergent postmodern metropolis – exemplified by Los Angeles – that is not only different in form from the modern metropolis it replaced but shaped by novel and globalized economic and political forces. Amin and Thrift (2002), Gottdeiner (2002) and Soja (2000), among many others and with few exceptions (Beauregard and Haila 2000), concur with this general assessment.…”

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The radical break in late twentieth‐century urbanization

Beauregard¹

2006

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The radical break in late twentieth‐century urbanization

Beauregard¹

2006

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“…Influenced by Marxist and post-Marxist theorists such as Jürgen Habermas, David Harvey, Henri Lefebvre and Manuel Castells, a new breed of thinkers developed new approaches to analyse the complexity of regions. These theorists were driven by a mutual dissatisfaction with the inability of neoclassical approaches to explain persistent disequilibrium, the bounded rationality of actors, persistent agglomeration, the exogenous treatment of technology and increasing regional divergences (Gottdiener 2008). This resulted in a plethora of new models and concepts explaining the complexities of regions.…”

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The Growth and Decline of the West Midlands Region: An Integrated Evolutionary Perspective

Geyer

2014

International Planning Studies

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The analysis of economic performance and innovation has undergone a shift into both geography and history. The spatial-temporal analysis of the region has become an important factor in policy development. The paper argues how various integrated analysis frameworks, collectively termed the integrated evolutionary perspective, manage the increasing complexity of analytical approaches to regional analysis. This is not a unified approach or methodology but a unified drive to integrate divergent analytical approaches. Applied to the West Midlands region, the paper argues that the historical trajectory of regions is a product of both path dependencies and hysteresis effects, with dynamical equilibrium evident in a loose Kondratievian framework. The region developed due to the combination of conducive endogenous factors and absolute advantage was maintained through isomorphic transitions. Although the region was challenged by a less conducive external environment, regional decline was precipitated by internal inefficiencies which continue to affect the region.

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“…Key works from the Los Angeles School include: Cenzatti (1993), Davis (1990Davis ( , 1998, Scott & Soja (1996), Dear (2000Dear ( , 2002b, and Soja (2002). The LA School has begun to attract critical attention: Garber (1999), Miller (2000, Abbott (2002), Gottdeiner (2002), Molotch (2002), Monahan (2002) and Sampson (2002). Especially relevant for the study of Los Angeles as a truth-spot are Beauregard (2003) and Ethington & Meeker (2002).…”

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City as Truth-Spot

Gieryn

2006

Soc Stud Sci

241

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How does 'place' contribute to the credibility of scientific claims? The Chicago School of urban studies had close ties to the city for which it was named: its social scientists lived in Chicago, were affiliated with the University of Chicago, and made Chicago the object of almost all of their empirical research. In order for this city to become a legitimate source of claims about urban form and process, Chicago is textually made to oscillate between two available authorizing spaces. As a field-site, the city of Chicago becomes a found and uncorrupted reality, the singularly ideal place to do urban research, and requiring the analyst to get upclose and personal. As a laboratory, Chicago becomes a controlled environment where artificial specimens yield generalities true anywhere, requiring of the analyst distance and objectivity. The distinctive epistemic virtues of both field and laboratory are preserved as complementary sources of credibility, and Chicago becomes the right place for the job.

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Urban Analysis as Merchandising: The “LA School” and the Understanding of Metropolitan Development

Cited by 22 publications

References 10 publications

The radical break in late twentieth‐century urbanization

The radical break in late twentieth‐century urbanization

The Growth and Decline of the West Midlands Region: An Integrated Evolutionary Perspective

City as Truth-Spot

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