Today, the Bay Area is home to the most successful knowledge economy in America, while Los Angeles has fallen progressively further behind its neighbor to the north and a number of other American metropolises. Yet, in 1970, experts would have predicted that L.A. would outpace San Francisco in...

In "Production, Work, Territory," Allen J. Scott and Michael Storper attempt to define the new agenda for research on the changing geography of industrial capitalism. Dissatisfied with the limited horizons of industrial geography, they gather in one volume essays by seventeen researchers who...