Track: Business Geographics
Visualizing Industrial Location and Development in Los Angeles: The Case of the Special Effects Industry
Nicholas VelluzziFernando De Paolis
This paper attempts to provide a spatial explanation for the localization of the special effects industry in relation to the motion picture industry in Los Angeles. In order to do so, we will employ an analytical framework based upon theories of industry clusters, choice of location, and technical development and dispersal. In a global economic climate characterized by the footloose nature of certain economic activities, it is important to identify the actual processes in which industrial development and change play a critical role as a driving force affecting local economic growth. The identification of "visible" location patterns becomes the starting point for the identification of other, "unobservable" intra-/interindustry linkages.
Nicholas Velluzzi
University of California, Los Angeles
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