Keys to the City: How Economics, Institutions, Social Interaction, and Politics Shape Development By Michael Storper

Excerpt

Why do some city regions grow and others decline over time, and what are the defining local differences that make it so? Such complex questions are what motivate Michael Storper, one of the most cited economic geographers, in his new book, Keys to the City: How Economics, Institutions, Social Interaction, and Politics Shape Development. This wide-ranging work is hard to pigeonhole into the disciplinary boxes of fields—geography, economic history, and economics—that typically deal with such questions. Indeed, in Keys to the City, Storper is interested in connections between the different disciplinary optics.

About the Author

Aksel Olson is a PhD candidate in the Department of City and Regional Planning at UC Berkeley.