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How do city-regions successfully compete in the global age? Mixing history and policy analysis, Steven Erie offers a compelling account of the improbable rise of Los Angeles, explaining how a region with no natural harbor and a metropolis situated a distant 20 miles from the coast managed to become the world’s ninth largest economy and a leading trade and transportation center. In Globalizing L.A., he argues that physical infrastructure development was a catalytic yet underappreciated factor in the transformation of L.A. and Southern California into a global economy, provocatively challenging the conventional wisdom that emphasizes information flows, intellectual property rights, or social capital. The book also highlights the unheralded role of local political institutions and public entrepreneurs in shaping the region’s development, growth, and globalization.
Beginning with the fierce battles over railroad and harbor development in the late nineteenth century, Erie chronicles L.A.’s emergence as the nation’s leading trade center and gateway to the Pacific Rim in the twentieth century. The book explores recent epic battles over port development, the expansion of LAX, the landmark Alameda Corridor rail link, and implementing NAFTA border-infrastructure projects.
Until the 1990s, the book argues, L.A. behaved much like a city-state where powerful, semi-autonomous development bureaucracies and entrepreneurial leaders provided the farsighted strategic planning that made these infrastructure projects possible. Today, Southern California faces daunting challenges, from community and environmental resistance to new post-9/11 security concerns, which will affect its future development and global competitiveness.
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“A significant new contribution to the study of urban development. . . . This book will change the way we think about Los Angeles and Southern California. . . . It is the next great book on the region.”—David Perry, Director and Professor, Great Cities Institute University of Illinois at Chicago
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Insfrastructure is THE Leader.......2004-06-15
The one thing that our San Diego city fathers haven't a clue about has to do with infrastructure.
Now, before I lose you because infrastructure is not a known attention getter, here's the punchline. Read Steve Erie's new book, "Globalizing L.A." (and San Diego), published by Stanford University Press.
Steve Erie is a professor of political science and director of the Urban Studies and Planning program at UCSD. He is fun and sparkling to listen to, with a wonderful mind to match his immense knowledge. He appeared at D.G. Wills Books in La Jolla.
Erie also leads SD Civic Solutions committee studying infrastructure, a most boring word until a pothole appears in your street to poke your wheels out of alignment. Yet infrastructure is the foundation for all else that any city or neighborhood requires to function at all.
The strangest part of civilization is that any otherwise "normal" voter could find the word boring; boring until you've read Erie's words and his verbal comment and wit on the subject.
He tells us that Los Angeles was second to San Diego until the former began understanding the need for expansive airport, harbor, freeways, bridges and you name it, while America's sleepiest city, San Diego, had added hundreds of thousands of people to its environs.
San Diego has population but forgot foundation. So much of its "foundation" is clichÈ like "best weather" (it is), "America's finest city" (self-anointed to thumb its nose at a Republican Convention that had insulted us), and of course, "laid back."
As a person who moved to L.A. in its good old days, sunshine and winter warmth were the only infrastructure I needed, until the freeways became parking lots and I looked for someone to blame, not having read Pogo yet.
Professor Erie warns that to be a lasting global place, it isn't enough to have the world's third busiest port system and fourth busiest airport. Erie brings out leadership as a compelling reason for L.A.'s progress, including Mayor Tom Bradley's marvelously astute and trusted leadership. When I was a young leader there, I worked with Tom Bradley and some of the great entrepreneurs whose love of place was high above their own vanities.
However, past evidence is celebrated, these are new times, with new issues. As Orange and San Diego counties have evidenced, there is a split between some of the population who believe that new jobs mean more traffic and those who feel that more jobs allow their families to progress and survive.
"It's the economy, stupid," has been replaced with more, "it's the plants, endangered species, canyons, animals and waterfront which must be protected more than the human specie; in addition, the role of traffic as a deal killer, whether it be auto or airplane, and now the threat and fear of terror.
Erie explains that our needs for precious infrastructure is severely underfunded which threatens competitiveness. We are bush-league in much of our planning and funding while China becomes a new global power with its massive expenditures on infrastructure.
Erie criticizes the "Latte Index" which equates progress with how many Starbucks and big boxes are in an area. The so-called "creative class" is synonymous with Silicon Valley and our intellectual achievement.
There are the "boring" erector set ingredients that can't earn a buzz from them as long as the coffee is imported and fresh. The oil companies learned that people will pay anything to please their cars; they learned this from how much people will pay for a cup of java sprinkled with sugar and heavy cream.
By emphasizing the role as catalyst that public capital investments plays, and how vital infrastructure is in shaping the future of a community, Erie seeks to reshape contemporary policy debates concerning key competitiveness and success. This book adds invaluably to knowledge of regional governance and development, foretelling which places will become smart cities and which will be future ghost towns.
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so slow.......2005-09-25
They said they would ship in 1-2 days. I got it 3 weeks later. Disappointed.
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This informative publication presents the broad application of nuclear magnetic resonance to many of today's problem areas in agriculture. Solid-state NMR methodology is covered, with its applications to the study of intact agricultural matrices such as plant cell walls, photosynthetic chloroplast membranes, forages, wood cellulose, and soils. In vivo solution NMR methodology and its applications to the study of different functioning plant tissues and their biochemical responses to various pathological, physiological, and toxicological stresses are illustrated with examples using 31P, 13C, 23Na, and 15N resonance methods. An introductory chapter presents a review of the in vivo literature and some basic principles and requirements for carrying out such experiments. A special section focuses on state-of-the-art 13C and 1H high-resolution multidimensional methods and their application to the study of agricultural toxins; biologically active components, including their structures and biosyntheses, and dynamic measurements of relaxation phenomena associated with cross relaxation in water bound to food proteins.
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According to authors Connie Zweig and Steve Wolf, each of us has shadows that hold forbidden feelings such as shame, jealousy, greed, lust, and rage. Left to their own devices these shadows will become destructive saboteurs--causing us to betray our loved ones as well as ourselves. It is not within our power to choose whether or not to have these shadows; however, Zweig and Wolf believe that it is within our power to take responsibility for our shadows and put them to productive use. Chapter by chapter Zweig and Wolf reveal the shadow side of love, parenthood, siblings, friendships, midlife, and work. Rather than deny or destroy these shadows, the authors show readers how to confront and "romance" them in order to access the energy, vitality, and creativity that usually lie dormant within our dark sides.
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Beneath the social mask we wear every day, we have a hidden shadow side: an impulsive, wounded, sad, or isolated part that we generally try to ignore, but which can erupt in hurtful ways. As therapists Connie Zweig and Steve Wolf show in this landmark book, the shadow can actually be a source of emotional richness and vitality, and acknowledging it can be a pathway to healing and an authentic life. "Romancing the shadow"--meeting your dark side, beginning to understand its unconscious messages, and learning to use its powerful energies in productive ways--is the challenging and exciting soul work that Zweig and Wolf offer in this practical, rewarding guide.
Drawing on the timeless teachings of Carl Jung and compelling stories from their clinical practices, Zweig and Wolf reveal how the shadow guides your choices in love, sex, marriage, friendship, work, and family life. With their innovative method, you can uncover the unique patterns and purpose of your shadow and learn to defuse negative emotions; reclaim forbidden or lost feelings; achieve greater self-acceptance; heal betrayal; reimagine and re-create relationships; cultivate compassion for others; renew creative expressions; and find purpose in your suffering.
The shadow knows why good people sometimes do bad things. Romancing the shadow and learning to read the messages it encodes in daily life can deepen your consciousness, imagination, and soul.
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Romancing the Shadow.......2005-09-30
It is a wonderful book. It has helped me when many things. Thank you so much.
Interesting topic, ineffective writing.......2003-04-27
Having just started to read about Jungian psychology, and taken an interest in the concept of the shadow, I approached this book in anticipation after reading Robert A Johnson's 'Owning your shadow'.While Johnson's book was concise and to the point,and very enjoyable to read, this book has been a boring read after the first couple of chapters. The ideas presented are sometimes repetitive and at other times just do not gel. You feel that you've read a profusion of sentences with a sprinkling of punctuations in between but with very little new information or insight as you go from page to page. I don't think I've learnt much, in theory or in practice. Will go to Debbie Ford's "The Dark side of the Light Chasers" now and hopefully find a more satisfying read.
Not usually into psychology/self-help.......2002-06-21
I went through a phase of that when I was teen and never really recovered, but this book is different. I don't know if the term depth psychology applies, but it certainly brings the concept to mind. The author works in Jungian concepts of archetype and shadow and seems to assume familiarity with them. Like many books it has a number of examples, but I found them more detailed and better related to one another. By reading this book one spends some time with the concept that a relationship, with oneself, or a significant other, is continuously evolving and never fixed, but that it can be stable. Zweig gives us the idea of a the third person in a relationship who can be a threatening other or the unity created by the couple, but usually both. This combines with the artistic, rather than scientific, analysis of the Shadow, to create a useful tool which encourages the reader to pinpoint what it is they really want from a relationship, as opposed to what they think they want. It's very easy to be confused on that subject, especially in our society where there's no such thing as an emotional education. You have to do your own work though.
Useful for midlife reflection.......2000-06-09
Imagine yourself at a crowded conference table in a dark room. There are many present, but no role call. Each person is known only when he or she speaks, but you cannot speak. In fact, you sometimes cannot even hear. On the rare occassion that a light briefly shines, your eyes are usually closed. Every decision, reaction, thought and feeling in your life is determined by the voices at this conference. Usually the loudest and shrillest voice dominates. To the authors, this is a picture of your inner life.
The authors attempt to enlighten the reader so that he begins to bring the shadow people into the light. In essence the book is a call for conscious, intentional life. Instead of a mute observer and victim, the authors hope to strengthen the innermost Self so that the voices can be heard, not denied; heeded without dominating.
Like much written from a Jungian perspective, I found this book both frustrating and helpful. References to Greek myths multiply at an alarming rate, but I found that prior knowledge of the pregnant meaning of each myth name was not essential to benefit from this book.
The authors explore family of origin shadows, relationship shadows, shadows in the workplace and the midlife experience of shadow. Four primary defenses against self-awareness of the shadow occur as running themes: money, power, sex and addiction.
It is interesting that there is little or no reference to mortality, aging and legacy shadow issues. Perhaps the ages of the authors (at most 51 years?) has resulted in a less comprehensive view of shadow work. If so, I hope they will update this work in 20 years.
I recommend this work to others, like myself, who are consciously working through midlife questions. This book may open new vistas for these seekers. For those looking for a "how to" prspective, this book will be a disappointment, only nine pages provide practical advice.
A Waist of time!.......2000-01-30
I totally agree with the reviewer Timothy F. Mulligan who said that this book is disappointing.. When I read the title of the book, then the first few pages I was so excited.. I thought this is exactly what I was looking for..
Even while I was reading, I kept saying: "Ok I didn't understand my shadow yet but I'm sure I will do if I'll just be patient enough and read till the end (because it was also starting to get boring" But I was disappointed cause here! I finished the book and it really didn't help! It didn't help me read or see my shadow, talk about romancing it! Later on I read some other books that weren't really talking about this; neither were talking psychology, but helped more in understanding it..
Maybe I didn't read it slow enough! I will try reading again!
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Edgar Allan Poe's strength as a writer lay in fabricating fantisies in settings far removed from his own place and time. This dislocation renders the attitudes embedded in his fiction open to interpretation, and over the years some readers have found Poe to be virulently racist, while others found him morally conflicted, and still others detected a subversion of racism in his works' subtle sympathies for non-white characters. As a nineteenth-century Southerner, Poe was a deeply ambiguous figure, evading race issues while living among them, and traversing the North-South border with little sensitivity to its political implications. In this tightly organized volume, a handful of leading Americanists revisit the Poe issue, re-examining what it means to speak of an author and his work as racist, and where the critic's responsibility lies.
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