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Event Scheduled for Oct 29, 2012
Event: CANCELLED ---CEE Present the Interdisciplinary Colloquium Series: Transport Improvements and Economic Evolution: Knowledge Metropolises in the Megalapolis - Speaker: T.R. Lakshmanan, Professor Emeritus, Department of Geography and Environment, Boston Unive
Location: Laurel Hall - Room 202 (Formerly known as the Classroom Building)
Time: 12:00 pm
Details of Event:
***IN LIGHT OF THE HURRICANE THIS SEMINAR HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE
The Departments of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Geography and Center for Tranportation and Livable Systems Present the Interdisciplinary Colloquium Series: Transport Improvements and Economic Evolution: Knowledge Metropolises in the Megalapolis - The Seminar will focus on broad economic consequences of multimodal transport investments, in particular the nature of economic evolution and structural changes over several decades along the dynamic Boston-Washington corridor in the U.S. known as the Megalopolis. Specifically the aim is to delineate the nature and scope of the economic evolution in that dynamic multimodal transport corridor, and second, to identify the role of improvements in transport infrastructures in the above economic evolution over the last three to four decades. The talk will begin by outlining the many transport-induced economic mechanisms--- Gains from trade, Technology diffusion, and Gains from Agglomeration made possible by transport investments---underlying the economic transformation along these transport corridors.
However, that is only part of the story of the Megalopolis economic evolution , which reflects, additionally, the effects of several other economic structural change processes:
a) The rise of the ‘Knowledge Economy’
b) The rise in the last three decades of Globalization, and the emergence of corporate central organizational service functions (financial, legal, accounting, and other business and professional services) that permit operation in multiple countries, and
c) The growing role of spatial proximity in providing in metropolitan areas knowledge-rich environments, which offer 1) urban spaces which provide companies functioning as knowledge innovation, and expertise transfer agents {as in a) above}, and 2) a disproportionate concentration of the coordinating central functions {noted in b) above} in selected global cities
The talk will interpret the nature of the economic evolution over several decades in the Megalopolis – in terms of the development of transport networks, demographic changes, economic transformation in terms of the magnitude, and concentration of value added and employment of various industries and services, and the consequent spatial development patterns.
Sponsored By: Civil and Environmental Engineering
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