- Allen J. Scott
Allen J. Scott is a professor of
geography andpublic policy atUCLA .Allen J. Scott holds the rank of distinguished professor with joint appointments in the Department of Public Policy and the Department of Geography at the University of California – Los Angeles. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1986-87, and was granted honors by the Association of American Geographers in 1987. He was elected fellow of the British Academy in 1999, and was the recipient of the Vautrin Lud Prize for 2003. He has occupied the André Siegfried Chair at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Paris, (1999), the First Trust Bank Chair of Innovation at Queen’s University, Belfast (2004), the Chaire d’Excellence Pierre de Fermat at the University of Toulouse-Le Mirail (2005), and the Wibaut Chair at the University of Amsterdam (2006). His book “On Hollywood: the Place, the Industry” (Princeton University Press, 2005) was awarded the Meridian Prize in March 2006.
Publications
ingle-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).
"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).
"The Social Economy of the Metropolis". Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
Edited books
A. J. Scott (ed.) "Studies in Regional Science", London Papers in Regional Science, London: Pion Ltd. 1969.
M. Dear and A. J. Scott (eds.) "Urbanization and Urban Planning in Capitalist Society", New York: Methuen, 1981. Translated into Korean, 1988.
A. J. Scott and M. Storper (eds.) "Production, Work, Territory: The Geographical Anatomy of Industrial Capitalism", London: Allen and Unwin, 1986.
M. Storper and A. J. Scott (eds.) "Pathways to Industrialization and Regional Development," London: Routledge, 1992.
A. J. Scott and E. Soja (eds.) "The City: Los Angeles and Urban Theory at the End of the Twentieth Century," Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1996.
F. Moulaert and A. J. Scott (eds.) "Cities, Enterprises and Society on the Eve of the 21st Century," London: Pinter, 1997.
A. J. Scott (ed.) "Global City-Regions: Trends, Theory, Policy", Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. Japanese translation, 2004.
D. Power and A. J. Scott (eds.) "Cultural Industries and the Production of Culture," London: Routledge, 2004.
A. J. Scott and G. Garofoli (eds.) "Development on the Ground: Clusters, Networks, and Regions in Emerging Economies", London: Routledge, 2007.
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