DRUID-DIME ACADEMY Winter Conference 2011

Beskrivelse

This working paper investigates the innovative city region of San Francisco (the Bay Area). However, it does not focus on the city's core, instead it analyzes one of the districts in its social, economic and geographical fringes: the city of Vallejo. Vallejo, even though it was performing relatively well, it filed for bankruptcy in 2008, upon the genesis of the current global economic slowdown. Today it is the largest bankrupt city in the United States. Vallejo urgently requires a process of innovation, and in order to do so, first needs to survive. This innovation process requires more than empowering its entrepreneurial dynamics per se. The paper's findings are based on an economic geographic study of the city of Vallejo, at four key points in its history since the XIX century. The concept of 'City Region System of Survival' is proposed.

Paper presented: Vallejo, California. From the Fringes of the Metropolis, a Case for the 'City Region System of Survival'

Periode	20 jan. 2011 → 22 jan. 2011
Begivenhedstitel	DRUID-DIME Academy Winter Conference 2011
Begivenhedstype	Konference
Placering	Rebild, DanmarkVis på kort