Michael Storper is an

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and urban geographerLatham, 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),

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and

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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 The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

. In 2014 he was named by

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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 Social science is one of the branches of science, devoted to the study of societies and the relationships among individuals within those societies. The term was formerly used to refer to the field of sociology, the original "science of soc ...

s. He is a fellow of the

British Academy The British Academy is the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and the social sciences. It was established in 1902 and received its royal charter in the same year. It is now a fellowship of more than 1,000 leading scholars span ...

and in 2016 received the Founder's Medal from the

Royal Geographical Society The Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers), often shortened to RGS, is a learned society and professional body for geography based in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1830 for the advancement of geographical scien ...

. In a 2020 article co-authored with Andrés Rodríguez-Pose, Storper argued, contrary to most existing research, that

zoning regulations Zoning is a method of urban planning in which a municipality or other tier of government divides land into areas called zones, each of which has a set of regulations for new development that differs from other zones. Zones may be defined for a si ...

have no impact on housing prices. A response piece to the article by several UCLA Luskin urban planning professors argued that the original article misrepresents existing research and draws faulty conclusions from data. He lives in Los Angeles and Paris.Bernard, Ariane
"An American (and His Second Home) in Paris"
in ''

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'' 18 October 2006

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

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Profile at the London School of Economics
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