Cities in Transition

Bibliographic Data

ID9765515
AuthorsWILBUR R THOMPSON (corresponding author)
Year1986
Volume488
Issue1
Pages18-34
Publication date1986-11-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0002-7162 • E-ISSN: 1552-3349
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0002716286488001002
OpenAlexW2123796086
LanguageEN
Citations received5

The local industry mix provides the conventional framework within which a city's economic position and prospects are evaluated and its redevelopment is planned. The industrial approach has been complemented here with an occupational-functional approach that measures the comparative advantage—competitive position—of a given urban area along five broad paths of economic development: entrepreneurship, central management, research and development, precision operations, and routine operations. Looking beyond the products a city makes to the roles it plays and the skills it performs shifts the emphasis from the immediate fortunes of a given industry and the direct flow of current income to the long-run power and potential of local resources, especially human resources. This new perspective is also more sensitive to state and local public policy, and illustrations are provided of the ways in which educational and other strategies have been used implicitly and could be planned more explicitly to guide cities through these most difficult years of industrial transition

Business · Civil engineering · Competitive advantage · Economic growth · Economic system · Economics · Entrepreneurship · Geography · Industrial organization · Perspective (graphical · Position (finance · Public policy · Redevelopment · Regional science · State (computer science · Transition (genetics · Computer Science · Engineering · Marketing · Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis

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