Despite huge reductions of noxious emissions from factories and cars, Southern California's air is still terrible. It's so bad that the state is requiring that two percent of new cars sold in 1998 be zero polluters and ten percent by 2003. Many researchers here have become preoccupied with teh...

A general outline of the functional and spatial characteristics of the clothing industry in Southern California is sketched out. Two important trends are noted: the increasing design- and knowledge-intensive structure of the industry; and, the marked increase in off-shore sub-contracting by...

The article begins with a theoretical discussion of the imperative of regional industrial policy in the new world economic order. The recent performance of the Southern Californian manufacturing system is reviewed, and it is argued that the regional economy is now at a critical historical...

The O*NET database provides a wealth of information on the qualitative aspects of different occupations. On the basis of these data, we carry out an investigation of the forms of human capital and work that can be found at different levels in the urban hierarchy of the United States. The study...

The paper opens with a brief description of the electronics assembly industry in Southern California. A statistical profile of workers in the industry is presented. It is shown that the employment relation in this industry is characterised by much instability and mobility, though the industry...

A basic frame of reference for reconsideration of the urban question is presented, with an emphasis on the city as a collectivity whose character is derived from a spatially organised system of increasing returns effects and social needs. The logic of the city as a locus of accumulation and...

This paper attempts to review and re-structure a mass of published ideas on the geography of industrial activity in the modern metropolis. The argument proceeds in a series of stages. First, some basic locational factors in the city are examined. Second, a critical discussion of the literature...

This is a retrospective view of an earlier paper published in City. I briefly revisit the main arguments of that paper, with special reference to (a) the resurgence of urban growth as the new cognitive-cultural economy has gathered steam in recent years; (b) the new division of labor that is...