Globalizing LA: Trade, Infrastructure and Regional Development

7/26/2004; 28 minutes

Steve Erie, the director of UCSD's Urban Studies and Planning Program, presents the story of the improbable rise of Los Angeles, explaining how a region with no natural harbor and a metropolis situated 20 miles from the coast managed to become the world's 9th largest economy. (#8745)

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