This is the key volume in the New York Metropolitan Region
Study. It is a synthesis and interpretation of the seven
specialized books that have already been published and the one that
is still awaiting publication. Here, at last, with a depth of
perspective made possible by the author's familiarity with the
unpublished as well as the published findings of the other
participants in the Study, is the whole picture--New York's busy
and varied economy as it is now, as it has been, and as it is
likely to be twenty-five years from now.
Beginning with the visible present, Mr. Vernon with swift
strokes lays bare the essentials of the economic history of the New
York Region. He shows how its industries grew out of one another,
the part played by labor, the early crucial role of the port, and
the later crucial role of "clustering" that enables firms to share
common facilities. He discusses the Region's advantages and
disadvantages for different kinds of business and industry, the
interrelation between the jobs in the Region and the people who
live in it. He traces the movement of jobs geographically in and
out of the Region as a whole, and also outward within the Region,
relating this outward movement to such developments as the
thinning-out of population in mid-city tenements and the continuing
boom in suburban split-levels. He analyzes the problems besetting
the multitude of local governments in the Region, and the crisis of
commuting and rapid transit services. Finally he projects the
metropolis of 1985, picturing it as all the infinitely complex
forces of its history to date indicate that it will be, if these
forces are not altered in their future operation by governmental
actions of unprecedented magnitude.
In this book there is clearly presented the information that
can enable the metropolitan dwellers themselves to communicate more
effectively with the experts whose business is objective evaluation
of urban problems. Once that communication is established, Mr.
Vernon says, "We shall have moved a giant step closer to the
objective of a more tolerable metropolitan environment."
General
Imprint: |
Harvard University Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
New York Metropolitan Region Study, 4 |
Release date: |
April 2014 |
First published: |
October 2013 |
Authors: |
Raymond Vernon
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Dimensions: |
234 x 156 x 22mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover - Sewn / Cloth over boards
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Pages: |
276 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-674-36620-6 |
Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
Politics & government >
General
|
LSN: |
0-674-36620-4 |
Barcode: |
9780674366206 |
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