克鲁格曼的主要经济地理学观点分析

本文评述了80年代以来着名经济学家P.克鲁格曼的主要经济地理观点。侧重于三方面：新贸易理论、对经济地理学传统的看法以及空间经济模型。最后,对克鲁格曼经济地理学与常规地理学的不同之处作以比较。     

Brownfield Sites in Minneapolis-St. Paul: The Interwoven Geographies of Industrial Disinvestment and Environmental Contamination

In contrast to the formal legal definition of brownfields which focuses on environmental and legal barriers to property redevelopment, this paper reconceptualizes brownfields as the product of the interwoven geographies of industrial disinvestment and environmental contamination. An empirical analysis of the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area demonstrates that brownfields cannot be understood apart from the dynamics of urban industrial investment and disinvestment. Spatial restructuring of industrial activity over the past half century has resulted in significant disinvestment in core city and inner-suburban industrial districts and is at the root of the brownfield problem. The abundance of brownfield sites is highly correlated with historic levels of industrial activity and negatively correlated with changes in industrial property values. The results of this study support the recent public policy turn that attempts to address the dual urban-economic and environmental nature of brownfields.