Michael Storper
Michael Storper is an economic and urban geographer[1] who teaches at the University of California (UCLA), Sciences Po and London School of Economics.
Biography
Michael Storper completed a bachelor's degree in sociology and history in 1975, followed by a masters in 1979 and a PhD in geography in 1982 from the University of California, Berkeley.[1]
In 2014 he was named by Thomson Reuters as one of the "World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds" of the 21st century for his writings being among the top 1% most cited in the field of social sciences.[2] He is a fellow of the British Academy[3] and in 2016 received the Founder's Medal from the Royal Geographical Society.[4]
In a 2020 article co-authored with Andrés Rodríguez-Pose, Storper argued, contrary to most existing research, that zoning regulations have no impact on housing prices. A response piece to the article by several UCLA Luskin urban planning professors argued that the original article misrepresents existing research and draws faulty conclusions from data.[5]
He lives in Los Angeles and Paris.[6]
Books
- 1989 (with Richard Walker) The Capitalist Imperative: Territory, Technology and Industrial Growth, Wiley-Blackwell
- 1997 The Regional World: Territorial Development in a Global Economy, The Guilford Press
- 2013 Keys to the City: How Economics, Institutions, Social Interaction, and Politics Shape Development, Princeton University Press
- 2015 The Rise and Fall of Urban Economies: Lessons from San Francisco and Los Angeles, Stanford Business Books
Further reading
- Hoyler, M.; Freytag, T.; Jöns, H. (2004). "Technology, organization, territory. A biographical interview with Michael Storper". In Storper, Michael (ed.). Institutions, incentives and communication in economic geography. Hettner-Lecture 2003. Steiner. pp. 69–83. ISBN 3-515-08453-3.
- Reimer, Suzanne (2010). "Michael Storper". In Hubbard, Phil; Kitchin, Rob (eds.). Key Thinkers on Space and Place (2nd ed.). Sage. pp. 394–399. ISBN 978-1-84920-102-5.
References
- ^ a b Latham, Alan (2017) "Michael Storper", in Koch, R. and Latham, A. (eds.) Key Thinkers on Cities, London: Sage
- ^ UCLA: "Michael Storper Makes List of World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds", 7 October 2014
- ^ British Academy Fellows | Record for: STORPER, Professor Michael Archived 2016-03-14 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Bob Geldof and Professor Michael Storper receive Royal Medals
- ^ Manville, Michael; Lens, Michael; Monkkonen, Paavo (2022). "Zoning and affordability: A reply to Rodríguez-Pose and Storper". Urban Studies. 59 (1): 36–58. doi:10.1177/0042098020910330. ISSN 0042-0980.
- ^ Bernard, Ariane: "An American (and His Second Home) in Paris", in The New York Times 18 October 2006
External links
- Economic geographers
- Urban geographers
- Academics of the London School of Economics
- Sciences Po faculty
- UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs faculty
- Fellows of the British Academy
- Living people
- Recipients of the Royal Geographical Society Gold Medal
- Recipients of the Vautrin Lud International Geography Prize
- Corresponding Fellows of the British Academy