Michael Storper is an
economic
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and
urban geographer[Latham, Alan (2017) "Michael Storper", in Koch, R. and Latham, A. (eds.) ''Key Thinkers on Cities'', London: Sage] who teaches at the
University of California (UCLA),
Sciences Po
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and
London School of Economics
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.
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
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.
In 2014 he was named by
Thomson Reuters
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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 science
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s. He is a fellow of the
British Academy
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It was established in 1902 and received its royal charter in the sa ...
and in 2016 received the
Founder's Medal
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Foundation
From ...
from the
Royal Geographical Society
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.
He lives in Los Angeles and Paris.
Views on housing
Storper criticized
California Senate Bill 50, which would have eliminated
single-family zoning
Single-family zoning is a type of planning restriction applied to certain residential zones in the United States and Canada in order to restrict development to only allow single-family detached homes. It disallows townhomes, duplexes, and ...
statewide and replaced it with four-plex residential zoning, and enabled dense housing near public transit stations and jobs centers. Storper has argued that slight reductions in stringent zoning would mainly produce housing for wealthy people, and that it is already legal under existing zoning to build millions of units in unprofitable locations.
In a 2020 article published with
Andrés Rodríguez-Pose, Storper questioned whether reducing regulatory barriers to housing construction such as
restrictive zoning in prosperous urban areas would significantly affect housing supply and prices, and whether it would reduce housing costs for lower-income households in particular.
Both the authors of the article and authors writing in response have characterized this position as outside the mainstream consensus of urban economics that strict zoning is the primary cause of the supply shortage and resulting high prices.
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
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References
External links
Profile at the London School of Economics
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Economic geographers
Urban geographers
Academics of the London School of Economics
Academic staff of Sciences Po
UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs faculty
Fellows of the British Academy
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Recipients of the Royal Geographical Society Founder's Medal
Recipients of the Vautrin Lud International Geography Prize
Corresponding fellows of the British Academy