Ann Markusen
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 271328 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Ann Markusen |
| NOMBRES | Ann |
| APELLIDO | Markusen |
| FIRMA | MARKUSEN A |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Minnesota |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 54 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 921 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 54 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1975 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2018 |
| ÍNDICE H | 16 |
Regional scholar, policy-maker, academic leader
The author hosted Clelio Campolina Diniz during the writing of his second dissertation, required of professors in Brazil, at Rutgers University’s Project on Regional and Industrial Economics in the 1990s and subsequently headed up a US National Science Foundation-funded international project on new industrial districts with Campolina and colleagues in Japan and South Korea. She co-wrote a subsequently published paper with Campolina for the Inter-…
Creative Cities
Over the past decade, under the rubric of creative placemaking, policymakers, planners and practitioners have turned to arts and culture to enliven city life and stimulate urban economies. Good multidisciplinary research has kept pace, but challenges remain. What are the missions of urban arts and culture? How can offerings and engagement become more equitable and diverse? In fashioning good policy and making funding and planning decisions, what …
How Cities Can Nurture Cultural Entrepreneurs
Fuzzy concepts, proxy data
Policy and community organizing around creative placemaking has spread from initial European initiatives to formal US arts and cultural policy and variations in many other places, including Japan and South Korea. In the USA, an indicators approach has been mounted to evaluate funding outcomes at the National Endowment for the Arts and a nationwide philanthropic funding consortium, ArtPlace. But the effort is confounded by fuzzy concepts and a rel…
Artists Work Everywhere
Despite the specter of artists clustered in inner reaches of a few hip, fashionable cities, people do artwork as a major occupation in most U.S. communities. Artists move across state lines more often than workers in other occupations, and because more apt to be self-employed, for reasons other than a job. The author explores why artists migrate, varying by artistic discipline and age cohort. Some metros home grow more artists by offering nurturi…
Arts and Culture in Urban or Regional Planning
Amid the buzz on the creative city and cultural economy, knowledge about what works at various urban and regional scales is sorely lacking. This article reviews the state of knowledge about arts and culture as an urban or regional development tool, exploring norms, reviewing evidence for causal relationships, and analyzing stakeholders, bureaucratic fragmentation, and citizen participation in cultural planning. Two strategies—designated cultural …
Organizational Complexity in the Regional Cultural Economy
Markusen A. Organizational complexity in the regional cultural economy, Regional Studies. Cultural industries offer a truncated understanding of the regional cultural economy, undercounting self-employed workers and others outside the for-profit sector. Commercial, public, non-profit, and unincorporated community sectors produce, present, train, organize, guide, and regulate elements of the cultural economy, each with distinctive structures, goal…
Consumption-Driven Urban Development
Economic, political, cultural, and environmental distinctiveness may attract highquality workers and firms as well as reflect a region's export viability. We hypothesize that local consumption activity can be a source of such distinctiveness and thus of long-term growth and stability, and that specialization does not reflect export activity alone. Using skewness across metropolitan regions in the United States as a distinctiveness measure, we sho…
Defining the Creative Economy
This article reviews conceptual and operational issues in defining the creative sector and its arts and cultural core. Some accounts use establishment data to measure creative industry employment, some use firm-level data, and others use occupational data. The authors examine how cultural-sector employment is conceptualized in three pioneering cultural economy studies driven by distinctive policy agendas and constituencies. Choices about which in…
A Consumption Base Theory of Development
Export base theory, which posits that overall regional growth is a function of external sales of locally produced goods and services, dominates economic development practice. But the consumption base can also serve as a growth driver, especially in small towns and rural areas. Local investments may induce residents to divert expenditures into local purchases, attract new and footloose residents and tourists, and revitalize aging town centers. A c…
Margarita McCoy Award
The Distinctive City
With accelerated world market integration, cities compete with each other cities as sites of production and consumption, targeting firms and households as semi-autonomous location decision-makers. Distinction may be sought in productive structure, consumption and identity. In this paper, contradictory trends towards homogenisation and distinctiveness are theorised. Studying the occupational structure of 50 large US metropolitan areas, it is found…
The Artistic Dividend
Over the past two decades, urban and regional policy-makers have increasingly looked to the arts and culture as an economic panacea, especially for the older urban core. The arts' regional economic contribution is generally measured by totalling the revenue of larger arts organisations, associated expenditures by patrons and multiplier effects. This approach underestimates the contributions of creative artists to a regional economy, because of hi…
Urban Development and the Politics of a Creative Class
In this paper I critique the notion of 'the creative class' and the fuzzy causal logic about its relationship to urban growth. I argue that in the creative class, occupations that exhibit distinctive spatial and political proclivities are bunched together, purely on the basis of educational attainment, and with little demonstrable relationship to creativity. I use a case study of artists, one element of the purported creative class, to probe this…
Targeting Occupations in Regional and Community Economic Development
This article analyzes why and how economic and community development planners might target occupations as well as industries in shaping an economic development strategy. Key occupations can be identified on the basis of captura-bility, high relative employment growth rates, connectivity across industries, fit with underemployed workforce groups, and potential for entrepreneurship. I demonstrate the potential for targeting occupations with quantit…
The Work of Forgetting and Remembering Places
Millions of people live in 'forgotten places'. But places do not forget other places. Only thinking human beings can do so. The paper charts the conscious decision-making and ideology that create forgotten places. Forgotten places are defined as communities deprived of leadership by the actions of those present and absent. Relevant actors are delineated by class, by function and by place, showing how choices made within existing constraints imped…
On Conceptualization, Evidence and Impact
M ARKUSEN A. (2003) On conceptualization, evidence and impact: a response to Hudson, Lagendijk and Peck, Reg. Studies 37 , 747-751. Contemporary human geographers must work to clarify and translate new critical theory insights for a broader audience. Better evidence will both strengthen the theory-building exercise and render our insights more powerful in the real world of policy and action. In response to the critics of my original "fuzzy concep…
Fuzzy Concepts, Scanty Evidence, Policy Distance
Many articles in this and other journals over the last decade have considered such topics as flexible specialization, resurgent regions, world cities, co-operative competition and social capital. In this edition of Debates and Surveys , Ann Markusen argues that much of this recent regional analysis has increasingly retreated into a mode of discourse in which concepts lack substantive clarity. She also suggests that such fuzzy conceptualization ma…
The Case Against Privatizing National Security
Since the mid‐1990s, the U.S. Pentagon has accelerated efforts to outsource weapons, battlefield and base support operations, and troop training, invoking competition‐based savings and better quality. I review the arguments for and against such privatization and summarize recent Pentagon outsourcing experience. I conclude that the current enthusiasm for privatization is driven largely by commercial concerns and lobbying rather than real gains to …
Two frontiers for regional science
Two frontiers for regional science
The Activist Intellectual
Farewell to Global Arms
The Rise of World Weapons
Big Firms, Long Arms, Wide Shoulders
GRAY M., GOLOB E. and MARKUSEN A. (1996) Big firms, long arms, wide shoulders: the ‘hub-and-spoke’ industrial district in the Seattle region, Reg. Studies 30, 651–666. Rapidly growing regions exhibit distinct varieties of industrial district structure. One variant is the hub-and-spoke form, where an industry and its suppliers cluster around one or several core firms. The hub-and-spoke district is distinct from the flexibly specialized district, i…
Sticky Places in Slippery Space
As advances in transportation and information obliterate distance, cities and regions face a tougher time anchoring income-generating activities. In probing the conditions under which some manage to remain “sticky” places in “slippery” space, this paper rejects the “new industrial district, ” in either its Marshallian or more recent Italianate form, as the dominant paradigmatic solution. I identify three additional types of industrial districts, …
Fuzzy Concepts, Scanty Evidence, Policy Distance
Many articles in this and other journals over the last decade have considered such topics as flexible specialization, resurgent regions, world cities, co-operative competition and social capital. In this edition of Debates and Surveys , Ann Markusen argues that much of this recent regional analysis has increasingly retreated into a mode of discourse in which concepts lack substantive clarity. She also suggests that such fuzzy conceptualization ma…
Urban Development and the Politics of a Creative Class
In this paper I critique the notion of 'the creative class' and the fuzzy causal logic about its relationship to urban growth. I argue that in the creative class, occupations that exhibit distinctive spatial and political proclivities are bunched together, purely on the basis of educational attainment, and with little demonstrable relationship to creativity. I use a case study of artists, one element of the purported creative class, to probe this…
The Artistic Dividend
Over the past two decades, urban and regional policy-makers have increasingly looked to the arts and culture as an economic panacea, especially for the older urban core. The arts' regional economic contribution is generally measured by totalling the revenue of larger arts organisations, associated expenditures by patrons and multiplier effects. This approach underestimates the contributions of creative artists to a regional economy, because of hi…
Creative Cities
Over the past decade, under the rubric of creative placemaking, policymakers, planners and practitioners have turned to arts and culture to enliven city life and stimulate urban economies. Good multidisciplinary research has kept pace, but challenges remain. What are the missions of urban arts and culture? How can offerings and engagement become more equitable and diverse? In fashioning good policy and making funding and planning decisions, what …
City Spatial Structure, Women's Household Work, and National Urban Policy
High Tech America
The Distinctive City
With accelerated world market integration, cities compete with each other cities as sites of production and consumption, targeting firms and households as semi-autonomous location decision-makers. Distinction may be sought in productive structure, consumption and identity. In this paper, contradictory trends towards homogenisation and distinctiveness are theorised. Studying the occupational structure of 50 large US metropolitan areas, it is found…
Big Firms, Long Arms, Wide Shoulders
GRAY M., GOLOB E. and MARKUSEN A. (1996) Big firms, long arms, wide shoulders: the ‘hub-and-spoke’ industrial district in the Seattle region, Reg. Studies 30, 651–666. Rapidly growing regions exhibit distinct varieties of industrial district structure. One variant is the hub-and-spoke form, where an industry and its suppliers cluster around one or several core firms. The hub-and-spoke district is distinct from the flexibly specialized district, i…
The Case Against Privatizing National Security
Since the mid‐1990s, the U.S. Pentagon has accelerated efforts to outsource weapons, battlefield and base support operations, and troop training, invoking competition‐based savings and better quality. I review the arguments for and against such privatization and summarize recent Pentagon outsourcing experience. I conclude that the current enthusiasm for privatization is driven largely by commercial concerns and lobbying rather than real gains to …
Regions
The Military-Industrial Divide
In the debate on the incidence and dynamics of new industrial complexes, technological innovation has been treated as exogenous, and endogenous entrepreneurial growth forces have been stressed at the expense of state actions, interregional interactions, and geographical transfers of capital and labor. In this paper it is argued that technological paths are deliberately chosen and that the state, through its commitment to cold-war armament, has be…
Organizational Complexity in the Regional Cultural Economy
Markusen A. Organizational complexity in the regional cultural economy, Regional Studies. Cultural industries offer a truncated understanding of the regional cultural economy, undercounting self-employed workers and others outside the for-profit sector. Commercial, public, non-profit, and unincorporated community sectors produce, present, train, organize, guide, and regulate elements of the cultural economy, each with distinctive structures, goal…
Generalizing New Industrial Districts
New industrial districts occur in a number of forms, some of which are not subsumable under the flexibly specialized, locally embedded, and endogenously driven model based on the Italian case. In this paper, we critique the industrial districts literature, focusing on the role of the state, interdistrict mobility of labor, nonlocal externalities, and non-place embeddedness in district formation and character. We introduce the notion of the satell…
Multipolarity and the Layering of Functions in World Cities
Consumption-Driven Urban Development
Economic, political, cultural, and environmental distinctiveness may attract highquality workers and firms as well as reflect a region's export viability. We hypothesize that local consumption activity can be a source of such distinctiveness and thus of long-term growth and stability, and that specialization does not reflect export activity alone. Using skewness across metropolitan regions in the United States as a distinctiveness measure, we sho…
Dismantling the Cold War Economy
Artists Work Everywhere
Despite the specter of artists clustered in inner reaches of a few hip, fashionable cities, people do artwork as a major occupation in most U.S. communities. Artists move across state lines more often than workers in other occupations, and because more apt to be self-employed, for reasons other than a job. The author explores why artists migrate, varying by artistic discipline and age cohort. Some metros home grow more artists by offering nurturi…
High-Tech America
The State as Industrial Locator and District Builder
Ann Markusen, Sam Ock Park, The State as Industrial Locator and District Builder: The Case of Changwon, South Korea, Economic Geography, Vol. 69, No. 2, Defense Spending and Regional Development (Apr., 1993), pp. 157-181
Defence spending
The Work of Forgetting and Remembering Places
Millions of people live in 'forgotten places'. But places do not forget other places. Only thinking human beings can do so. The paper charts the conscious decision-making and ideology that create forgotten places. Forgotten places are defined as communities deprived of leadership by the actions of those present and absent. Relevant actors are delineated by class, by function and by place, showing how choices made within existing constraints imped…
Neither ore, nor coal, nor markets
Markusen A. (1986) Neither ore, nor coal nor markets: a policy-oriented view of steel sites in the USA, Reg. Studies 20, 449–462. Locational work on steel stresses the growing role of consuming markets over resources in shaping the evolution of mill sites. Here it is argued that four additional factors have governed steel siting in the USA: agglomeration economies, oligopolistic behaviour, the role of the state, and conflict between capital and l…
Planning for Industrial Decline
Economic development planning has weaker tools than does land use planning and is hampered by a great deal of analytical and normative conflict. This paper reviews the causes and remedies of industrial decline in the steel industry. At least eight different causal explanations of steel job loss have been offered, and diverse normative objectives have been invoked. This research exam ines the intergovernmental issues and the politics involved in a…
On Conceptualization, Evidence and Impact
M ARKUSEN A. (2003) On conceptualization, evidence and impact: a response to Hudson, Lagendijk and Peck, Reg. Studies 37 , 747-751. Contemporary human geographers must work to clarify and translate new critical theory insights for a broader audience. Better evidence will both strengthen the theory-building exercise and render our insights more powerful in the real world of policy and action. In response to the critics of my original "fuzzy concep…
The Economics of the Women's Movement
The most significant economic frontier facing American women in the twentieth century lies at the doorstep of the American household. The emergence of women from the domestic workplace into the labor force as permanent wage earners continues to place severe pressures on the basic economic institutions of society and on the tolerance of women for traditional doctrines about women's economic capabilities and legitimate workplace. This paper, dedica…
Class, Rent, and Sectoral Conflict
Western U.S. boomtowns accompanying energy production are a form of capitalist uneven development. The complexity of local boomtown struggles arises from traditional class composition, from sectoral competition, and from the potential appropriation of rent within regionally specific political and cultural institutions. The paper charts potential class alliances within and across regions, given the strength of various features of the development p…
Contemporary Marxist Theory and Practice
Both Marxist theory and practice continue to ignore, for the most part, recent developments in feminist theory and practice. Feminist theory chal lenges a definition of production as narrowly confined to the production of com modities that is commonly used in much Marxist literature, examines the pro duction and reproduction of people under patriarchal relations, and focuses on the conflicts that arise between women and men because of their diffe…
The Professional Production of Policy, Ideology, and Plans
City Spatial Structure, Women's Household Work, and National Urban Policy
Regions and Regionalism
Silicon Landscapes
Neither ore, nor coal, nor markets
Markusen A. (1986) Neither ore, nor coal nor markets: a policy-oriented view of steel sites in the USA, Reg. Studies 20, 449–462. Locational work on steel stresses the growing role of consuming markets over resources in shaping the evolution of mill sites. Here it is argued that four additional factors have governed steel siting in the USA: agglomeration economies, oligopolistic behaviour, the role of the state, and conflict between capital and l…
Defence spending
High Tech America
Regions
High-Tech America
Planning for Industrial Decline
Economic development planning has weaker tools than does land use planning and is hampered by a great deal of analytical and normative conflict. This paper reviews the causes and remedies of industrial decline in the steel industry. At least eight different causal explanations of steel job loss have been offered, and diverse normative objectives have been invoked. This research exam ines the intergovernmental issues and the politics involved in a…
Regions
The Rise Of The Gunbelt
Since World War II, America’s economic landscape has undergone a profound transformation. This economic restructuring, the authors argue, is a direct result of the rise of the military industrial complex (MIC) and the formation of a new industry based on defence spending and Pentagon contracts. This book chronicles the dramatic growth of this vast complex.
Converting the Military Industrial Economy
This paper addresses the task of converting military facilities to civilian uses, differentiat ing demand side from supply side approaches. We distinguish four alternative models of conversion from military to civilian use, each organized around a different target: converting the company, converting the community economic base, converting the worker, and converting the facility. After some discussion of each approach we scrutinize the last of the…
The Military-Industrial Divide
In the debate on the incidence and dynamics of new industrial complexes, technological innovation has been treated as exogenous, and endogenous entrepreneurial growth forces have been stressed at the expense of state actions, interregional interactions, and geographical transfers of capital and labor. In this paper it is argued that technological paths are deliberately chosen and that the state, through its commitment to cold-war armament, has be…
Dismantling the Cold War Economy
Acceptance Speech
Dismantling the Cold War Economy
Reinventing the Pentagon
The State as Industrial Locator and District Builder
Ann Markusen, Sam Ock Park, The State as Industrial Locator and District Builder: The Case of Changwon, South Korea, Economic Geography, Vol. 69, No. 2, Defense Spending and Regional Development (Apr., 1993), pp. 157-181
Defense Spending and Interregional Labor Migration
The impact of defense-related industry on labor migration within the United States is analyzed using census data for the period 1975-1980. The results "suggest that workers follow jobs in the defense industry, rather than vice versa, and indicate that a process of defense-related regional labor pool formation, amplified by interstate migration, adds to the volume of interregional labor flows."
Studying Regions by Studying Firms∗
This paper presents a method for inferring regional economic structure and prospects from key informant interviews. It describes assumptions which must be made and steps to be taken in moving from individuals to establishment, firm, and industry aggregations. A technique is offered for mapping core relationships among firms and other regional and external actors, and for aggregating firm-centered maps into industrial and regional maps. The mappin…
Multipolarity and the Layering of Functions in World Cities
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