This article analyses the location patterns of the US aerospace industry by comparing the spatial behaviour of manufacturing and R&D functions. We find that these two functions follow different logics as R&D activities tend to concentrate in the northeast whilst assembling is mostly accomplished...

During the last decades, the economic reshaping of major French cities has put forward the issue of the attractiveness and power of central business districts. In Paris, recent works suggest that the decline of employment in the city centre is leading to the slackening of the Parisian centrality...