Technopolis is a timely theoretical and empirical investigation of the world's largest high-technology industrial complexSouthern California. Allen Scott provides a new conceptual framework for understanding urban and regional growth processes based on a combination of inter-industrial, labor market, and geographical factors. He presents case studies and original data on three major industries that have become synonymous with Southern California: aircraft and parts, missiles and space equipment, and electronics. The business community will be particularly interested in Scott's diagnosis of post-Cold War economic ills and his suggestions for possible remedies.
In good times or bad, knowledge of how Southern California's high-tech industry and regional development have interacted in the past and might interact in the future will be invaluable for regional and economic planners everywhere.
- ISBN10 0520081897
- ISBN13 9780520081895
- Publish Date 9 February 1994 (first published December 1993)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 20 March 2003
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of California Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 336
- Language English