Allen Scott
NAME: Allen J. Scott
CURRENT RANK AND POSITION: Distinguished professor, Dept. Geography and Dept. Policy Studies, UCLA
ADVANCED EDUCATION:
Oxford University, B.A., 1961
Oxford University, M.A., 1965
Northwestern University, M.A., 1962
Northwestern University, Ph.D., 1965
HONORS AND AWARDS:
Chicago Geographical Society, Annual Award, 1964.
Croucher Fellowship, University of Hong Kong, January - April 1984.
Guggenheim Fellow, 1986-1987.
Visiting Exchange Scholar under auspices of Committee on Scholarly Communication with the People's Republic of China, National Academy of Sciences; visitor to Department of Geography, Zhongshan University, People's Republic of China, July 1986.
Honors Award, Association of American Geographers, 1987.
Vautrin Lud Prize, 2003.
On Hollywood: The Place, the Industry, awarded the 2005 Meridian Book Prize by the Association of American Geographers for Outstanding Scholarly Work in Geography.
Carol and Bruce Mallen Lifetime Achievement Award, Entertainment and Media Management Institute, Anderson School of Management, University of California, Los Angeles, 2008.
Anders Retzius Gold Medal of the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography, presented by King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden, Stockholm, 24th April, 2009.
Isaac Manasseh Meyer Fellowship, National University of Singapore, Summer, 2009.
Doctor Honoris Causa, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, 2011.
SINGLE-AUTHORED BOOKS :
Combinatorial Programming, Spatial Analysis, and Planning, London: Methuen Ltd., 1971.
The Urban Land Nexus and the State, London: Pion, 1980.
Metropolis: From the Division of Labor to Urban Form, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1988; translated into Japanese (with a new preface) and published by Kokon Shoin, 1996.
New Industrial Spaces: Flexible Production Organization and Regional Development in North America and Western Europe, London: Pion, 1988.
Technopolis: High-Technology Industry and Regional Development in Southern California, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1993.
Regions and the World Economy: The Coming Shape of Global Production, Competition and Political Order, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. Translated into French as Les Régions et l’Economie Mondiale: La Nouvelle Géopolitique Globale de la Production et de la Compétition Economique, Paris: L’Harmattan, 2001. Also translated into Italian as Le Regioni nell’Economia Mondiale: Produzione, Competizione, e Politica nell’Era della Globalizzazione, Bologna: Il Mulino, 2001.
The Cultural Economy of Cities: Essays on the Geography of Image-Producing Industries, London: Sage, 2000, (Series in Theory, Culture and Society). Japanese translation to be published by Minerva Shobo in 2005.
On Hollywood: The Place The Industry, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005. Awarded the 2005 Meridian Book Award of the Association of American Geographers for outstanding scholarly work in geography.
Geography and Economy: Three Lectures, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2006, (Clarendon Lectures in Geography and Environmental Studies, Oxford University).
Social Economy of the Metropolis: Cognitive-Cultural Capitalism and the Global Resurgence of Cities, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. Translated into Italian as Città e Regioni nel Nuovo Capitalismo: L'Economia Sociale delle Metropoli, Bologna: Il Mulino, 2011.
EDITED BOOKS:
Studies in Regional Science, London Papers in Regional Science, London: Pion Ltd. 1969.
(with M. Dear) Urbanization and Urban Planning in Capitalist Society, New York: Methuen, 1981. Translated into Korean, 1988.
(with M. Storper) Production, Work, Territory: The Geographical Anatomy of Industrial Capitalism, London: Allen and Unwin, 1986.
(with M. Storper) Pathways to Industrialization and Regional Development, London: Routledge, 1992.
(with E. Soja) The City: Los Angeles and Urban Theory at the End of the Twentieth Century, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1996.
(with F. Moulaert) Cities, Enterprises and Society on the Eve of the 21st Century, London: Pinter, 1997.
Global City-Regions: Trends, Theory, Policy, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. Japanese translation, 2004. Farsi translation, 2009.
(with D. Power) Cultural Industries and the Production of Culture, London: Routledge, 2004.
(with G. Garofoli) Development on the Ground: Clusters, Networks, and Regions in Emerging Economies, London: Routledge, 2007.
JOURNAL ARTICLES:
"A Programming Model of an Integrated Transportation Network", Papers of the Regional Association, 19, 1967, 215-222.
"An Integer Program for the Optimization of a System of Chromatic Graphs", Journal of Regional Science, 7, 1967, 291-296.
"Spatial Equilibrium of the Central City", Jour
Phone: 310 825-7344
Address: Department of Geography,
UCLA,
Los Angeles,
CA., 90095,
USA
CURRENT RANK AND POSITION: Distinguished professor, Dept. Geography and Dept. Policy Studies, UCLA
ADVANCED EDUCATION:
Oxford University, B.A., 1961
Oxford University, M.A., 1965
Northwestern University, M.A., 1962
Northwestern University, Ph.D., 1965
HONORS AND AWARDS:
Chicago Geographical Society, Annual Award, 1964.
Croucher Fellowship, University of Hong Kong, January - April 1984.
Guggenheim Fellow, 1986-1987.
Visiting Exchange Scholar under auspices of Committee on Scholarly Communication with the People's Republic of China, National Academy of Sciences; visitor to Department of Geography, Zhongshan University, People's Republic of China, July 1986.
Honors Award, Association of American Geographers, 1987.
Vautrin Lud Prize, 2003.
On Hollywood: The Place, the Industry, awarded the 2005 Meridian Book Prize by the Association of American Geographers for Outstanding Scholarly Work in Geography.
Carol and Bruce Mallen Lifetime Achievement Award, Entertainment and Media Management Institute, Anderson School of Management, University of California, Los Angeles, 2008.
Anders Retzius Gold Medal of the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography, presented by King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden, Stockholm, 24th April, 2009.
Isaac Manasseh Meyer Fellowship, National University of Singapore, Summer, 2009.
Doctor Honoris Causa, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, 2011.
SINGLE-AUTHORED BOOKS :
Combinatorial Programming, Spatial Analysis, and Planning, London: Methuen Ltd., 1971.
The Urban Land Nexus and the State, London: Pion, 1980.
Metropolis: From the Division of Labor to Urban Form, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1988; translated into Japanese (with a new preface) and published by Kokon Shoin, 1996.
New Industrial Spaces: Flexible Production Organization and Regional Development in North America and Western Europe, London: Pion, 1988.
Technopolis: High-Technology Industry and Regional Development in Southern California, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1993.
Regions and the World Economy: The Coming Shape of Global Production, Competition and Political Order, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. Translated into French as Les Régions et l’Economie Mondiale: La Nouvelle Géopolitique Globale de la Production et de la Compétition Economique, Paris: L’Harmattan, 2001. Also translated into Italian as Le Regioni nell’Economia Mondiale: Produzione, Competizione, e Politica nell’Era della Globalizzazione, Bologna: Il Mulino, 2001.
The Cultural Economy of Cities: Essays on the Geography of Image-Producing Industries, London: Sage, 2000, (Series in Theory, Culture and Society). Japanese translation to be published by Minerva Shobo in 2005.
On Hollywood: The Place The Industry, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005. Awarded the 2005 Meridian Book Award of the Association of American Geographers for outstanding scholarly work in geography.
Geography and Economy: Three Lectures, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2006, (Clarendon Lectures in Geography and Environmental Studies, Oxford University).
Social Economy of the Metropolis: Cognitive-Cultural Capitalism and the Global Resurgence of Cities, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. Translated into Italian as Città e Regioni nel Nuovo Capitalismo: L'Economia Sociale delle Metropoli, Bologna: Il Mulino, 2011.
EDITED BOOKS:
Studies in Regional Science, London Papers in Regional Science, London: Pion Ltd. 1969.
(with M. Dear) Urbanization and Urban Planning in Capitalist Society, New York: Methuen, 1981. Translated into Korean, 1988.
(with M. Storper) Production, Work, Territory: The Geographical Anatomy of Industrial Capitalism, London: Allen and Unwin, 1986.
(with M. Storper) Pathways to Industrialization and Regional Development, London: Routledge, 1992.
(with E. Soja) The City: Los Angeles and Urban Theory at the End of the Twentieth Century, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1996.
(with F. Moulaert) Cities, Enterprises and Society on the Eve of the 21st Century, London: Pinter, 1997.
Global City-Regions: Trends, Theory, Policy, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. Japanese translation, 2004. Farsi translation, 2009.
(with D. Power) Cultural Industries and the Production of Culture, London: Routledge, 2004.
(with G. Garofoli) Development on the Ground: Clusters, Networks, and Regions in Emerging Economies, London: Routledge, 2007.
JOURNAL ARTICLES:
"A Programming Model of an Integrated Transportation Network", Papers of the Regional Association, 19, 1967, 215-222.
"An Integer Program for the Optimization of a System of Chromatic Graphs", Journal of Regional Science, 7, 1967, 291-296.
"Spatial Equilibrium of the Central City", Jour
Phone: 310 825-7344
Address: Department of Geography,
UCLA,
Los Angeles,
CA., 90095,
USA
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of the urbanisation process is described in terms of the following main developmental phases: (a)
the emergence of relationships based on specialisation and interdependence in society; (b) the
pre-eminent role of the division of labour within these relationships and its recomposition in
dense spatial nodes of human activity; and (c) the concomitant formation of the networked intraurban
spaces of the city. These phases are then contextualised within three intertwined dimensions
of urban materiality, namely, an internal dimension (the internal organisation and spatial
dynamics of the city), a socially ambient dimension (the relational structure of society at large)
and an exogenous dimension (the geographic outside of the city). In light of this account, an evaluative
review of what I designate ‘the new critical urban theory’ is carried out, with special reference
to planetary urbanisation, postcolonial urban theory and comparativist methodologies. I
argue that while every individual city represents a uniquely complex combination of social conjunctures,
there are nonetheless definite senses in which urban phenomena are susceptible to
investigation at the highest levels of theoretical generality.
sous diverses formes et, d’autre part, la mondialisation et ses dynamiques spatiales.
Il commence en retraçant la généalogie du concept de division du travail
dans l’histoire de l’économie politique classique. Les différentes déclinaisons
fonctionnelles de la division du travail sont ensuite analysées, afin de construire
une théorie générale de l’organisation de la production économique. Sur cette
base, l’attention porte alors sur la dimension géographique de la question.
L’articulation entre la division du travail et les forces centripètes de l’agglomération
industrielle, puis la manière dont la division du travail se traduit à différents
échelons géographiques (y compris mondial) sont ainsi analysées.
for surviving in the city and they can provide the basis for a fruitful, engaged and satisfying life as a citizen.
In my new book, A World in Emergence, my goal is to work out how these different elements are constituted and how they shape the formation of the contemporary geographic landscape. The chief focus of the book is on the enormous resurgence of cities all over the globe in the last few decades, in significant degree as a function of the recent worldwide intensification and spread of revivified forms of capitalism. This resurgence and the new regionalism that accompanies it will almost certainly come to be one of the defining features of the geography of the 21st century.
I suggest in the book that a distinctive new form of capitalism has been coming into existence since about the 1980s on the basis of microelectronic technologies and the ways in which they drive out standardized forms of work and encourage a vast expansion in types of human capital based on the cognitive and cultural assets of the labor force. Accordingly, I refer to this new order of things as “cognitive-cultural capitalism”, i.e. a system that revolves in major degree around production sectors like software and technology-intensive industry, business and financial services, fashion-oriented sectors, and cultural products such as music, film, and electronic games.
The cognitive-cultural economy is bringing into existence a distinctive new historical wave of urbanization and spatial development, focused especially on large metropolitan areas or global city-regions. Most of these city-regions are located in North America, Western Europe, and the Asia-Pacific region, but other parts of the world are also subject to its influence in various ways. With the rise of this global network or mosaic of city-regions a reorganization of older national urban hierarchies into a more integrated global system is steadily coming about.
As this new developmental wave deepens and widens, so the emerging global network of city-regions has started to override the old core-periphery system that has hitherto characterized much of the historical geography of the modern world. Global city-regions on every continent are now emerging as major economic motors and political actors on the world stage. Indeed, according to the United Nations, more than half of the world’s population today lives in cities, and up to three-quarters of all economic activity occurs in the same centers. To be sure, not all cities participate equally in the new capitalism, and there remain numerous parts of the world where urban life is still resolutely focused on more traditional forms of social and economic existence. That said, these other cities are also sites through which developmental impulses are strongly channeled, and more and more of them are now acceding to the global mosaic, just as cities like Seoul, Taipei, Bangkok, and Mexico City have done before them.
At the same time, the internal social and physical characteristics of the cities that participate most insistently in this new trend are undergoing dramatic transformation. For one thing, the long-established economic base of these cities in manufacturing is steadily diminishing, and in many cases has effectively disappeared, at least in its older fordist forms. This means, too, that the traditional white-collar/blue-collar mode of socio-spatial stratification in these cities is waning rapidly. Instead, as the cognitive-cultural economy continues its rise, an alternative kind of urban social stratification is coming into being. This consists, on the one side, of an upper stratum of highly qualified elite workers, and, on the other side, of a lower stratum comprising a growing fraction of low-wage service-oriented workers. The latter fraction increasingly provides supporting services for the elite, either directly (e.g. via domestic labor of many different kinds, including child care) or indirectly (e.g. via the maintenance of urban functions such as janitorial work, taxi driving, and restaurant services). For this reason, we might say that a sort of new servile class has also come into being in cities where the cognitive-cultural economy now dominates.
An important corollary of the rise and geographical concentration of the cognitive-cultural economy is a greatly intensified process of gentrification and aestheticization in major world cities. One manifestation of this trend is the continued and extensive colonization of formerly blue-collar inner-city neighborhoods by members of the cognitive-cultural elite. This is all the more evident given that so many of the jobs performed by the elite are concentrated in central business districts, thereby increasing the demand for appropriate housing nearby. Another manifestation is in the increasing intensification and aestheticization of land uses that is occurring in response to the build-up of high-level cognitive-cultural production activities and associated cultural infrastructures in these same central city areas. Notable examples of this phenomenon are London’s Docklands, the Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, and the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur.
The overall result of these intersecting processes is an emerging cosmopolitan system of gigantic urban centers, and, as such, this system is steadily taking its place as one of the more potent and visible elements of the new world order. Each of the city-regions that make up the system represents an important concentration of economic and political activity, but each of them is also riven by social conflicts, rooted above all in the deepening inequalities that they harbor. Unfortunately, political capacities for dealing with the multiple problems generated by this state of affairs remain woefully underdeveloped. Equally, strategic institutional arrangements for more efficient supply of public goods and for building competitive advantage across individual city-regions also largely remain in a primitive stage of development.
My prediction is that in the end, major global city-regions will be forced, by reason of their mounting internal and external predicaments, to deal in a forthright manner with these issues. This will also greatly boost their role as major centers of economic and political power in the global order of the 21st century.
Allen J. Scott is distinguished professor emeritus at the University of California – Los Angeles. He is the author of numerous books and papers on questions of economic and urban geography and associated policy issues. He was awarded the Prix Vautrin Lud in 2003, the Anders Retzius Gold Medal in 2009, and a doctorate honoris causa from the University of Jena in 2011. He currently lives in Paris.
A World In Emergence: Cities and Regions in the 21st Century"
Allen J. Scott
Published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing (2015)
Book Description
The Solway Country – the lands surrounding the inner Solway Firth – constitutes one of the many small regional worlds of the British Isles that are remarkable for the ways in which their landscapes evoke a powerful sense of territorial identity rooted not only in their physical appeal, but also in the richness and distinctiveness of their human history and geography. The Solway Country is an archetypical but hitherto littleknown exemplar of places like these.
This book captures the spirit and substance of the Solway Country’s allure by means of a series of layered narratives dealing with its natural milieu, its past social and political turmoil, its changing forms of rural and agrarian life, and its responses to the industrial and urban forces that were unleashed in Britain after the eighteenth century. The Solway Country has the added charm of being partly in England and partly in Scotland, so that its personality partakes of elements of both. At the same time, the region exhibits a composite geographic unity derived from the central physical feature of the Solway Firth itself and from the many common aspects of local life and livelihood that have left deep imprints on the landscape. This unity is expressed symbolically in the peculiar hybrid culture of ballads and songs that emerged alongside the theft, murder, and mayhem that raged in the Anglo-Scottish marchlands in the days of the border reivers.
Papers by Allen Scott
of the urbanisation process is described in terms of the following main developmental phases: (a)
the emergence of relationships based on specialisation and interdependence in society; (b) the
pre-eminent role of the division of labour within these relationships and its recomposition in
dense spatial nodes of human activity; and (c) the concomitant formation of the networked intraurban
spaces of the city. These phases are then contextualised within three intertwined dimensions
of urban materiality, namely, an internal dimension (the internal organisation and spatial
dynamics of the city), a socially ambient dimension (the relational structure of society at large)
and an exogenous dimension (the geographic outside of the city). In light of this account, an evaluative
review of what I designate ‘the new critical urban theory’ is carried out, with special reference
to planetary urbanisation, postcolonial urban theory and comparativist methodologies. I
argue that while every individual city represents a uniquely complex combination of social conjunctures,
there are nonetheless definite senses in which urban phenomena are susceptible to
investigation at the highest levels of theoretical generality.
sous diverses formes et, d’autre part, la mondialisation et ses dynamiques spatiales.
Il commence en retraçant la généalogie du concept de division du travail
dans l’histoire de l’économie politique classique. Les différentes déclinaisons
fonctionnelles de la division du travail sont ensuite analysées, afin de construire
une théorie générale de l’organisation de la production économique. Sur cette
base, l’attention porte alors sur la dimension géographique de la question.
L’articulation entre la division du travail et les forces centripètes de l’agglomération
industrielle, puis la manière dont la division du travail se traduit à différents
échelons géographiques (y compris mondial) sont ainsi analysées.
for surviving in the city and they can provide the basis for a fruitful, engaged and satisfying life as a citizen.
In my new book, A World in Emergence, my goal is to work out how these different elements are constituted and how they shape the formation of the contemporary geographic landscape. The chief focus of the book is on the enormous resurgence of cities all over the globe in the last few decades, in significant degree as a function of the recent worldwide intensification and spread of revivified forms of capitalism. This resurgence and the new regionalism that accompanies it will almost certainly come to be one of the defining features of the geography of the 21st century.
I suggest in the book that a distinctive new form of capitalism has been coming into existence since about the 1980s on the basis of microelectronic technologies and the ways in which they drive out standardized forms of work and encourage a vast expansion in types of human capital based on the cognitive and cultural assets of the labor force. Accordingly, I refer to this new order of things as “cognitive-cultural capitalism”, i.e. a system that revolves in major degree around production sectors like software and technology-intensive industry, business and financial services, fashion-oriented sectors, and cultural products such as music, film, and electronic games.
The cognitive-cultural economy is bringing into existence a distinctive new historical wave of urbanization and spatial development, focused especially on large metropolitan areas or global city-regions. Most of these city-regions are located in North America, Western Europe, and the Asia-Pacific region, but other parts of the world are also subject to its influence in various ways. With the rise of this global network or mosaic of city-regions a reorganization of older national urban hierarchies into a more integrated global system is steadily coming about.
As this new developmental wave deepens and widens, so the emerging global network of city-regions has started to override the old core-periphery system that has hitherto characterized much of the historical geography of the modern world. Global city-regions on every continent are now emerging as major economic motors and political actors on the world stage. Indeed, according to the United Nations, more than half of the world’s population today lives in cities, and up to three-quarters of all economic activity occurs in the same centers. To be sure, not all cities participate equally in the new capitalism, and there remain numerous parts of the world where urban life is still resolutely focused on more traditional forms of social and economic existence. That said, these other cities are also sites through which developmental impulses are strongly channeled, and more and more of them are now acceding to the global mosaic, just as cities like Seoul, Taipei, Bangkok, and Mexico City have done before them.
At the same time, the internal social and physical characteristics of the cities that participate most insistently in this new trend are undergoing dramatic transformation. For one thing, the long-established economic base of these cities in manufacturing is steadily diminishing, and in many cases has effectively disappeared, at least in its older fordist forms. This means, too, that the traditional white-collar/blue-collar mode of socio-spatial stratification in these cities is waning rapidly. Instead, as the cognitive-cultural economy continues its rise, an alternative kind of urban social stratification is coming into being. This consists, on the one side, of an upper stratum of highly qualified elite workers, and, on the other side, of a lower stratum comprising a growing fraction of low-wage service-oriented workers. The latter fraction increasingly provides supporting services for the elite, either directly (e.g. via domestic labor of many different kinds, including child care) or indirectly (e.g. via the maintenance of urban functions such as janitorial work, taxi driving, and restaurant services). For this reason, we might say that a sort of new servile class has also come into being in cities where the cognitive-cultural economy now dominates.
An important corollary of the rise and geographical concentration of the cognitive-cultural economy is a greatly intensified process of gentrification and aestheticization in major world cities. One manifestation of this trend is the continued and extensive colonization of formerly blue-collar inner-city neighborhoods by members of the cognitive-cultural elite. This is all the more evident given that so many of the jobs performed by the elite are concentrated in central business districts, thereby increasing the demand for appropriate housing nearby. Another manifestation is in the increasing intensification and aestheticization of land uses that is occurring in response to the build-up of high-level cognitive-cultural production activities and associated cultural infrastructures in these same central city areas. Notable examples of this phenomenon are London’s Docklands, the Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, and the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur.
The overall result of these intersecting processes is an emerging cosmopolitan system of gigantic urban centers, and, as such, this system is steadily taking its place as one of the more potent and visible elements of the new world order. Each of the city-regions that make up the system represents an important concentration of economic and political activity, but each of them is also riven by social conflicts, rooted above all in the deepening inequalities that they harbor. Unfortunately, political capacities for dealing with the multiple problems generated by this state of affairs remain woefully underdeveloped. Equally, strategic institutional arrangements for more efficient supply of public goods and for building competitive advantage across individual city-regions also largely remain in a primitive stage of development.
My prediction is that in the end, major global city-regions will be forced, by reason of their mounting internal and external predicaments, to deal in a forthright manner with these issues. This will also greatly boost their role as major centers of economic and political power in the global order of the 21st century.
Allen J. Scott is distinguished professor emeritus at the University of California – Los Angeles. He is the author of numerous books and papers on questions of economic and urban geography and associated policy issues. He was awarded the Prix Vautrin Lud in 2003, the Anders Retzius Gold Medal in 2009, and a doctorate honoris causa from the University of Jena in 2011. He currently lives in Paris.
A World In Emergence: Cities and Regions in the 21st Century"
Allen J. Scott
Published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing (2015)
Book Description
The Solway Country – the lands surrounding the inner Solway Firth – constitutes one of the many small regional worlds of the British Isles that are remarkable for the ways in which their landscapes evoke a powerful sense of territorial identity rooted not only in their physical appeal, but also in the richness and distinctiveness of their human history and geography. The Solway Country is an archetypical but hitherto littleknown exemplar of places like these.
This book captures the spirit and substance of the Solway Country’s allure by means of a series of layered narratives dealing with its natural milieu, its past social and political turmoil, its changing forms of rural and agrarian life, and its responses to the industrial and urban forces that were unleashed in Britain after the eighteenth century. The Solway Country has the added charm of being partly in England and partly in Scotland, so that its personality partakes of elements of both. At the same time, the region exhibits a composite geographic unity derived from the central physical feature of the Solway Firth itself and from the many common aspects of local life and livelihood that have left deep imprints on the landscape. This unity is expressed symbolically in the peculiar hybrid culture of ballads and songs that emerged alongside the theft, murder, and mayhem that raged in the Anglo-Scottish marchlands in the days of the border reivers.