Neil Reid

Bio: Neil Reid is an academic researcher from University of Toledo. The author has contributed to research in topics: Metropolitan area & Craft. The author has an hindex of 21, co-authored 78 publications receiving 1341 citations. Previous affiliations of Neil Reid include Arizona State University.

Determinants of short- and long-term mobility expectations for home owners and renters.

Abstract: Confusion about the role of residential satisfaction vis-a-vis structural factors in the mobility process stems from the failure to examine the determinants of mobility over varying time frames and housing tenures. Using survey data for a random sample of 580 Phoenix-area households, we test models of short-term (l year) and long-term (5 years) mobility expectations for home owners and renters. The results show that residential satisfaction mediates the effects of structural variables on mobility expectations in the short term for home owners. In the long-term model for home owners and the short-term model for renters, the role of satisfaction as an intervening force declines in relative importance. Among renters, structural variables operate directly on long-term mobility expectations.

Technological Change and the Concentration of the U.S. General Cargo Port System: 1970–88

Abstract: The diffusion of containerization has changed not only how general cargo is handled, but where. Using the Gini coefficient, we show that general cargo port traffic has become more concentrated from 1970 to 1988 because of four technological changes: containerization, larger ships, larger trains, and computerization of freight tracking and billing. These four technological changes have spawned four kinds of intermodal services: microbridge, minibridge, landbridge, and round-the-world. We reconcile this concentration trend with Hayuth's (1988) seemingly contradictory finding that containerized cargo, which makes up most of general cargo, became less concentrated throughout the U.S. port system from 1970 to 1985. Anticipated future technological innovations are expected to continue the concentration trend. Our results fit well into Slack's (1990) proposed addition of a seventh stage (dropping of redundant nodes) to the Taaffe, Morrill, and Gould (1963) model of network development. In a methodologica...

Location quotients versus spatial autocorrelation in identifying potential cluster regions

Abstract: Most cluster-based economic development programs use co-location to initially identify the spatial footprint of cluster areas. Geographic proximity (co- location) is a necessary, but not a sufficient, condition for potential clustering activity. Therefore, an assessment of industry location and density patterns becomes the first phase in the identification of potential cluster regions to be included in a cluster driven development policy. This paper compares the use of location quotients and Getis–Ord G i * in the identification of potential cluster regions in the transportation equipment industry of four states in the Midwestern USA. Also, both location quotients and G i * are used to classify counties with respect to their concentration of transportation equipment manufacturing.

Acquisition versus Greenfield Investment: The Location and Growth of Japanese Manufacturers in the United States

Abstract: O´ HUALLACHA´IN B. and REID N. (1997) Acquisition versus greenfield investment: the location and growth of Japanese manufacturers in the United States, Reg. Studies 31, 403‐416. Investigating foreign direct investment by principal modes of entry helps explain the location of Japanese manufacturers in the United States. Japanese greenfield start-ups and acquired plants had distinct interregional distributions in different decades. We use ordinary least squares and tobit regression analyses to account for interstate variation in the levels of Japanese acquired and greenfield establishment in 1979, 1989 and 1992 and their expansion in the 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s. The greenfield plants propelled the formation of automobile-based industrial complexes in the Midwest and Southeast regions. Greenfield investors also avoided states with strong unions and, over time, they became unconstrained by the general distribution of American manufacturing. Although supplies of procurable assets consistently constrained ...

Is Los Angeles-Style Sprawl Desirable?

Abstract: This article reviews the literature on characteristics, causes, and costs of alternative development patterns. In doing so it debunks arguments by Gordon and Richardson in favor of Los Angeles-style sprawl. Sprawl is not suburbanization generally, but rather forms of suburban development that lack accessibility and open space. Sprawl is not a natural response to market forces, but a product of subsidies and other market imperfections. The costs of sprawl are borne by all of us, not just those creating it, and include inflated public spending, loss of resource lands, and a waning sense of community. The only realistic cure for sprawl is active planning of the sort practiced almost everywhere except the United States (and beginning to appear here out of necessity).

Port regionalization: towards a new phase in port development

Abstract: Logistics integration and network orientation in the port and maritime industry have redefined the functional role of ports in value chains and have generated new patterns of freight distribution and new approaches to port hierarchy. Existing models on the spatial and functional evolution of ports and port systems only partially fit into the new freight distribution paradigm. This paper aims to add to existing literature by introducing a port regionalization phase in port and port system development. It is demonstrated that the regionalization phase and associated hinterland concepts demand new approaches to port governance and a functional focus that goes beyond the traditional port perimeter.

Governance in global value chains

Abstract: This book opens a fresh chapter in the debate on local enterprise clusters and their strategies for upgrading in the global economy. The authors employ a novel conceptual framework in their research on industrial clusters in Europe, Latin America and Asia and provide new perspectives and insights for researchers and policymakers alike.