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Allen J. Scott
Ph.D. in Geography, Northwestern University Distinguished Professor of Public Policy and Geography
Phone: 310-825-7344
fax: 310-206-0337
ajscott@geog.ucla.edu |
For the last several years,
Professor Scott's research has been focused on issues of industrialization,
urbanization, and regional development. This research has involved extensive
theoretical and empirical work. On the theoretical front, Dr. Scott has
written numerous pieces on the interrelations between industrial organization,
technology, local labor markets, and location, with particular reference
to the phenomenon of agglomeration economies. He also has carried out a
large number of studies of individual industrial sectors in the United
States, Europe and Asia.
Most recently, he has been
researching the origins and development of high-technology industry in
Southern California, and the policy predicaments thrown into relief by
the recent crisis of the region's aerospace-defense industry in the post-Cold
War era. Professor Scott has served as a member of the Los Angeles County
Economic Development Commission's Aerospace Task Force. He also has been
engaged in the formulation of a variety of economic development strategies
for Southern California, including the setting up of an electric vehicle
industry and an advanced ground transportation industry.
A Fellow of the Royal Statistical
Society and a Guggenheim and Fulbright Fellow, Dr. Scott has been a visiting
scholar at Zhongshan University in the People's Republic of China, the
University of Paris, the University of Hong Kong and the University of
Sao Paulo. From 1990 to 1995 he was director of the Lewis Center for Regional
Policy Studies at UCLA. He formerly served as Associate Dean of the School of
Public Policy and Social Research.
Selected Publications:
Scott, A.J. Metropolis:
From the Division of Labor to Urban Form. Berkeley: University of California
Press, 1988.
Scott, A.J. New Industrial
Sources: Flexible Production Organization and Regional Development in North
America and Western Europe. London: Pion, 1988.
Scott, A.J. Technopolis:
High-Technology Industry and Regional Development in Southern California.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.
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