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Place: (Giddens perfers "locale")
Giddens, Anthony. The Constitution of Society. Berkeley: Univ. of
California Press, 1984. [pp.118-24; 132-5; 164-5; 366-8]
Pred, Allan. "Structuration and Place: On the Becoming of Sense of Place
and Structure of Feeling," Journ. for the Theory of Social Behavior 13(1),
March 1983, 45-68.
Tuan, Yi-Fu. Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience. Minneapolis:
University of Minnesota, 1977.
Milieu:
MAILLAT, D. 1991: The innovation process and the role of the milieu. In
Bergman, E., Maier, G. and Tvdtling, F., editors,
Regions Reconsidered: Economic Networks, Innovation and Local Development
in Industrialised Countries. London:
Cassel.
MAILLAT, D. and LECOQ, B. 1992: New Technologies and the transoformation
of regional structures in Europe: the role
of the milieu. Entrepreneurship and Regional Development 4, 1-20.
Malmberg, Anders: Industrial geography: agglomeration and local milieu.
In: Progress in Human Geography, 20(3) (1996), pp. 392-403.
Steed, Guy, The Changing Milieu of the Firm, in: Annals, Assoc. of
American Geog. 58 (1968), 506-25.
Local Business Climate
Malecki, E.J. "Word Games and Fuzzy Concepts," Guest Editorials,
Environment & Planning A18, 1986, 289-92.
[Discussion of the concept of "Business Climate"]
Arlington [A unique spirit of cooperation between
government and industry sparks Arlington's high
energy business climate....]
Focus: Doing Business in Birmingham
Economic factors shape business climate;
From the Birmingham Business Journal
Week of July 3, 2000 :
by Robert Burks
Chesapeake
["In addition to Chesapeake's tremendous natural
advantages of strategic location and abundant
land, the city's pro-business government works
hard to optimize the business environment."]
Business
Climate | New Brunswick
Business
Climate: Aggressive Business Incentives [Tioga Cty, NY]
Weathering the Business Climate [TIME Magazine Feb. 21, 2000]
Business Climate Index
IFO Institute, Munich (Germany) [How is it
calculated?]
Social Capital
C. Bjxrnskov
The Happy Few: Cross-Country Evidence on Social Capital and Life
Satisfaction
Kyklos, Volume 56 Number 1 2003, pp.3ff
D.L. Costa; M.E. Kahn
Understanding the American Decline in Social Capital, 1952-1998
Kyklos, Volume 56 Number 1 2003, pp.17ff.
Hesselbein, Frances et al., eds., The Community of the Future. The Peter
Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass,
1998.
Heying, Charles H., Civic Elites and Corporate Dislocation; An Alternative
Explanation for Declining Civic Engagement, American Behavioral Scientist
40(1997), 657-68.
Putnam, Robert D. Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American
Community. Simon & Schuster, 2000.
Sobel, Joel. "Can We Trust Social Capital?" Journal of Economic
Literature, XL (1), March 2002, pp.139-54.
Institute for the Study of Civic Values (Philadelphia)
Locality Studies (U.K.)
Cooke, Philip. Back to the Future: Modernity, Postmodernity and the
Locality. London: Uwin Hyman 1990. [B831.2 C66/1990/Arch]
Cooke, P., ed., Localities: The Changing Face of Urban Britain. London:
Unwin Hyman, 1989.
Locality Studies (U.S.)
Cox, K. and Mair, A., From Localized Social Structures to Localities as
Agents. Environment & Planning A 23, 1991, 197-213.
Cox, K. and Mair, A., Locality and Community in the Politics of Local
Development. Annals, AAG, 78, 1988, pp.307-25.
Jonas, Andrew. "A New Regional Geography of Localities?" Area 20(2), 1988,
101-10.
Saxenian, AnnaLee, Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon
Valley and Route 128.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1994. [This book won the American
Association of Publishers award
for best professional and scholarly book in the category of business
and management.]
Territoriality:
Herbert, Steve.
Policing Space: Territoriality and the Los Angeles Police Department
Minneapolis, Minn. : University of Minnesota Press, 1997.
Clippings:
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New Brunswick is committed to making the province a
better place to work so that all
the companies we invest in stay here and so all New Brunswickers have
access to good
quality jobs. This commitment is shared by all groups in our
community - local economic
development agencies, federal and municipal governments, Chambers of
Commerce,
industry organizations, education facilities and utilities
alike.
Robert D. Putnam is Dillon Professor of International Affairs and
director of the Center for International Affairs at
Harvard University. In his book on Italian politics, Making Democracy Work
(Princeton University Press, 1993),
Putnam builds a strong intellectual foundation for the thesis that the
vigor of civic life is a strong predictor of the
performance of democratic government. Now he has turned his attention to
civic life in our own country.
The Washington Post reports that
Harvard professor Robert Putnam, the
author of the book Bowling Alone: The Collapse
and Revival of American Community,
has been awarded more than $1 million by
the Ford Foundation and dozens of
community-based foundations to conduct a national
survey and local opinion polls gauged at
measuring America's supply of
social capital.
is an initiative of the Saguaro
Seminar on Civic Engagement in America at Harvard
University's Kennedy School of
Government.
The goal of BetterTogether.org is to provide
interactive opportunities to celebrate the new
and better ways that Americans are connecting, and
provide tools that make it easier for
them to do so. The site is being developed
by Kate Lockwood, Paul Resnick, and Marcy Wheeler at the
University of Michigan School of
Information.
The New Economy led by technology pioneers in places
like Seattle is making Americans more prosperous. But
material wealth is joined on the national stage by a sense
of
spiritual impoverishment: feelings of isolation among
individuals, distance between neighbors, disconnection
within communities.
Policing Space is a fascinating firsthand account of how the Los Angeles
Police Department attempts to control its vast,
heterogeneous territory. As such, the book offers a rare, ground-level
look at the relationship between the control of space
and the exercise of power.
Internet Sites:
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Business climate: Some rate the state
high, some don't Seattle PI, Friday, March 23, 2001
By BILL VIRGIN AND MARNI LEFF
Great wealth is starting to seem routine, and that's
testament to an incredible transformation
under way. The character of Seattle, and the
list of those who shape the civic agenda, is changing.
The presence of so much money within a
mid-size community may be unprecedented in the
nation's history.
2000 [econgeog@u.washington.edu]