Allen J. Scott - Curriculum Vitae#

CURRENT POSITION:

Distinguished research professor, Department of Geography and Department of Public Policy, University of California - Los Angeles.

ADVANCED EDUCATION:

• Oxford University, B.A., 1961.
  
• Northwestern University, M.A., 1962.
  
• Northwestern University, Ph.D., 1965.

MAJOR PRIZES:

• Honors Award, Association of American Geographers, 1987.
  
• Vautrin Lud Prize, 2003.
  
• Meridian Book Prize, 2008
  
• Carol and Bruce Mallen Lifetime Achievement Award, for Studies in Entertainment and Media, 2008.
  
• Anders Retzius Gold Medal of the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography, 2009.
  
• Doctor Honoris Causa, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, 2011.
  
• Sir Peter Hall Prize, Regional Studies Association (to be officially awarded October, 2013).

RECENT BOOKS:

• On Hollywood: The Place The Industry, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005.
  
• Geography and Economy: Three Lectures, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2006.
  
• Social Economy of the Metropolis: Cognitive-Cultural Capitalism and the Global Resurgence of Cities, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
  
• A World in Emergence: Cities and Regions in the 21st Century, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2012.

SELECTED PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES (SINCE 2005 ONLY)

“The Shoe Industry of Marikina City, Philippines: A Developing Country Cluster in Crisis, Kasarinlan: Philippine Journal of Third World Studies, 20, 2005, 76 – 99.

(with F. Leriche) “Les Ressorts Géographiques de l’Economie Culturelle: Du Local au Mondial,” L’Espace Géographique, No. 3, 2005, 207-222.

“Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Industrial Development: Geography and the Creative Field Revisited,” Small Business Economics, 26, 2006, 1 – 24.

“Creative Cities: Conceptual Issues and Policy Questions,” Journal of Urban Affairs, 28, 2006, 1 – 17.

“The Changing Global Geography of Low-Technology, Labor-Intensive Industry: Clothing, Footwear and Furniture,” World Development, 34, 2006, 1517-1536.

(with N. Pope) “Hollywood, Vancouver and the World: Employment Relocation and the Emergence of Satellite Production Centers in the Motion Picture Industry,” Environment and Planning A, 39, 2007, 1364 – 1381.

(with J-M. Zuliani) “L’Industrie de l’Informatique à Toulouse : Développement, Structure, Enjeux,” Revue d’Economie Régionale et Urbaine, 2007, No 3, 339 – 364.

“Capitalism and Urbanization in a New Key? The Cognitive-Cultural Dimension,” Social Forces, 85, 2007, 1465-1482.

“Inside the City: On Urbanization, Public Policy, and Planning,” Urban Studies, 45, 2008, 755 – 772.

“Patterns of Development in the Furniture Industry of Thailand: Organization, Location and Trade,” Regional Studies, 42, 2008, 17 – 30.

“Production and Work in the American Metropolis: A Macroscopic Approach,” Annals of Regional Science, 42, 2008, 787 - 805.

“The Resurgent Metropolis: Economy, Society and Urbanization in an Interconnected World,” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 32, 2008, 548-564.

(with M. Storper) “Rethinking Human Capital, Creativity, and Urban Growth,” Journal of Economic Geography, 9, 2009, 147 -167.

“Human Capital Resources and Requirements across the Metropolitan Hierarchy of the United States,” Journal of Economic Geography, 9, 2009, 207-226.

(with A. Mantegna) “Human Capital Assets and Structures of Work in the US Metropolitan Hierarchy (An Analysis Based on the O*NET Information System),” International Regional Science Review, 32, 2009, 173-194.

“Jobs or Amenities? Destination Choices of Migrant Engineers in the USA,” Papers in Regional Science, 89, 2010, 43 – 63.

“Cultural Economy and the Creative Field of the City,” Geografiska Annaler, Series B, Human Geography, 92, 2010, 115-130.

“Space-Time Variations of Human Capital Assets in the American Economy: Profiles of Abilities and Skills across Metropolitan Areas, 1980 to 2000,” Economic Geography, 86, 2010, 233-249

“The Cultural Economy of Landscape and Prospects for Peripheral Development in the Twenty-First Century: The Case of the English Lake District,” European Planning Studies, 18, 2010, 1567-1589.

“Creative Cities: the Role of Culture,” Revue d’Economie Politique, 120, 2010, 181-204.

“Emerging Cities of the Third Wave,” City, 15, 2011, 289-381.

“World in Emergence: Notes toward a Resynthesis of Urban-Economic Geography for the 21st Century,” Urban Geography, 32, 2011, 845-870.

(with E. Currid-Halkett) “The Geography of Celebrity and Glamour: Reflections on Economy, Culture, and Desire in the City,” Cities, Culture and Society, 2013, 4, 2 – 11.

“Beyond the Creative City: Cognitive-Cultural Economy and the New Urbanism,” Regional Studies, 2013, (forthcoming).

(with M. Storper) "The Nature of Cities: The Scope and Limits of Urban Theory, " International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 2014, (forthcoming).