Globalizing L.A.: Trade, Infrastructure, and Regional Development

By Steven Erie

Book Overview

How do city-regions successfully compete in the global age? Mixing history and policy analysis, Steven Erie offers a compelling account of the improbable rise of Los Angeles, explaining how a region with no natural harbor and a metropolis situated a distant twenty miles from the coast managed to become the world's ninth largest economy and a leading trade and transportation center.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804746818
• ISBN13: 9780804746816
• Release Date: February 2004
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 310 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.0"