Publications

Books

2007

• The Country in the City: The Greening of the San Francisco Bay Area. Seattle: University of Washington.

2004

• The Conquest of Bread: 150 Years of California Agribusiness. New York: The New Press.

1992

• The New Social Economy: Reworking the Division of Labor. Cambridge, MA: Basil Blackwell. (w/ A. Sayer)

1989

• The Capitalist Imperative: Territory, Technology and Industrial Growth. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. (w/ M. Storper)

Articles

2010

• The Golden State Adrift, New Left Review. Nov-Dec. 66: pp. 5-30.
• The Living New Deal: The Unsung Benefits of the New Deal for the United States and California, Working Paper Series, Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, UC Berkeley.
• Blinded by History: The Geographic Dimension in Society and Environment, In: Douglas Sackman, ed. A Companion to Environmental History. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 553-77.
• California, Pivot of the Great Recession, Working Paper
• Karl Marx between Two Worlds: The Antinomies of Giovanni Arrighi's Adam Smith in Beijing, Historical Materialism, 18, pp. 52-73.

2009

• The Lungs of the City: 75 Years and Counting for the East Bay Parks, Bay Nature, October-December, pp. 18-22.

2008

• At the crossroads: defining California through the global economy. IN: David Igler and William Denevan, eds. A Companion to California History. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 75-96.
• Human-environment relations. (Editor's Intro to 1979 Antipode Special Issue). IN: Bauder, Harald and Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro (eds.). Critical Geographies: A Collection of Readings. Praxis (e)Press. 322-46. (reprinted with minor revisions)
• In Memoriam: Allan Pred, 1936-2007: reflections on a life. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 98(2): 487-93. (with Michael Watts)
• San Francisco's haymarket: a redemptive tale of class struggle. ACME: Online Journal of Geography. 7/1: 45-58.

2007

• The Chinese Road: cities in the transition to capitalism. New Left Review, 46:39-66. (with Daniel Buck)
• Allan Pred: friend and rebel, Antipode, 39(2): 388-92. & Allan Pred: scholar, teacher & rebel, Progress in Human Geography, 31(6): 813-815. (both with Michael Watts)
• The sands of San Francisco. AAG Newsletter, Oct. 2006, p 1, 4
• Walker & Watts, Allan Pred: Friend & Rebel, for Antipode, 2007
• Walker, Richard. 2007. My Days at the Helm of the Good Ship Antipode. Antipode website, recollections of former editors. (need url)

2006

• My days at the helm of the good ship Antipode. Antipode
• Teaching (political) economic geography: some personal reflections. Journal of Geography in Higher Education. 30/3: 427-37.
• The education of an economic geographer. IN: Helen Lawton-Smith and Sharmistha Bagchi-Chen, eds. The Past, Present and Future of Economic Geography. London: Routledge. 103-11.
• The boom and the bombshell: the New economy bubble and the San Francisco Bay Area, in Giovanna Vertova, ed. , The Changing Economic Geography of Globalization. London: Routledge. 121-47.

2004

• Power of Place and Space. Race, Poverty & The Environment. 11/1:7-8.
• Industry Builds Out the City: Industrial Decentralization in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1850-1950. In Robert Lewis, ed. Manufacturing Suburbs: Building Work and Home on the Metropolitan Fringe. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. (revised version of 2001 article) (as pdf)
• The Spectre of Marxism -- The Return of The Limits to Capital. Antipode (June) 36:3.
• Crimes of the Continental Op: On reading Joe Nevins' Operation Gatekeeper. Antipode (January) 36/1: 156-62.

2001

• A hidden geography. IN: Richard Misrach, The Golden Gate. Santa Fe: Arena Editions. 145-58. (New Edition forthcoming from Aperture Press, New York, Fall 2004)
• Growing surpluses, dwindling politics: Bluestone and Harrison's Growing Prosperity. Antipode. 33/1: 90-100.
• Bennett Harrison: A life worth living. Antipode. 33/1: 34-38.
• California's golden road to riches: natural resources and regional capitalism, 1848-1940. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 91(1): 167-99.
• Industry builds the city: industrial decentralization in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1850-1940. Journal of Historical Geography. 27/1: 36-57.
• Beyond the crabgrass frontier: industry and the spread of North American cities, 1850-1950 (with Robert Lewis) Journal of Historical Geography 27/1: 3-19.2000
• The geography of production. In: Eric Sheppard and Trevor Barnes, eds. Companion to Economic Geography. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. 113-32.
• Capitalism's recurrent self-criticism: an evaluation of Bob Brenner's Origins of Global Turbulence. Historical Materialism. 5: 179-210.

1999

• Putting capital in its place: globalization and the prospects for labor. Geoforum. 30/3: 263-84.
• Capital's global turbulence. Against the Current 78, January-February 1999: 29-35.

1998

• Foreward to Andrew Herod, ed. Organizing the Landscape: Geographical Perspectives on Labor Unionism. University of Minnesota Press, pp. xi-xvii.
• An appetite for the city. In: James Brook, Chris Carlsson and Nancy Peters, eds. Reclaiming San Francisco: History, Politics, Culture. SF: City Lights Books. pp. 1-20.

1997

• Unseen and disbelieved: A political economist among cultural geographers. IN: P. Groth and T. Bressi, eds., Understanding Ordinary Landscapes. New Haven: Yale University Press, pp. 162-173
• California rages: regional capitalism and the politics of renewal. IN: R. Lee and J. Wills, eds., Geographies of Economies. London: Edward Arnold, pp. 345-356.
• Field of dreams, or the best game in town. In: Michael Watts and David Goodman, eds. Globalising Food: Agrarian Questions and Global Restructuring. Routledge, pp. 273-284.
• For Better or Worcester: Reflections on Gender, Work and Space. For Symposium on Susan Hanson and Geraldine Pratt, Gender, Work and Space, Antipode, 29/1, pp. 329-337.

1996

• California’s collision of race and class, Representations, No. 55, 163-183, Summer.
• Reprinted: Robert Post and Michael Rogin (eds.), Race and Representation: Affirmative Action. New York: Zone Books, 1998, pp. 281-308.
• Another round of globalization in San Francisco, Urban Geography, 17(1): 60-94.

1995

• Regulation and flexible specialization as theories of capitalist development. Challengers to Marx and Schumpeter? IN: H. Liggett and D. Perry, eds. Spatial Practices: Critical Explorations in Social/Spatial Theory. London: Sage, pp. 167-208.
• California rages against the dying of the light. New Left Review, 209: 42-74.
• Landscape and city life: four ecologies of residence in the San Francisco Bay Area. Ecumene 2(1): 33-64.

1993

• Nature’s Metropolis: The ghost dance of Christaller and Von Thünen. Antipode 26(2): 152-62. (with Brian Page)
• The hidden dimension of industrialization: an expanding division of labor. Futures 25(6):273-93.

1991

• From settlement to Fordism: The agro-industrial revolution in the American Midwest. Economic Geography 67:4, 281-315. (with Brian Page)

1990

• The playground of US capitalism? The political economy of the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1980s. IN: Davis, M., Hiatt, S., Kennedy, M., Ruddick, S. and Sprinker, M. eds. Fire in the Hearth: The Radical Politics of Place in America (The Year Left 4). 3-82.

1989

• A requiem for corporate geography: new directions in industrial organization, the production of place and uneven development. Geografisker Annaler. 71B(1): 43-68.
• Geography from the left: a survey of recent developments. IN: G. Gaile & C. Willmott, Eds. Geography in America (New York: Merrill). 619-50.
• In defense of realism and dialectical materialism: a friendly critique of Wright and Burawoy’s philosophical marxism. Berkeley Journal of Sociology. 34: 111-35.
• What’s left to do? Theses on a flyer back. Antipode . 21(2): 133-65.
• Machinery, labour and location. IN: S. Wood, Ed. The Degradation of Work? (London: Unwin Hyman), pp. 59-90.1988
• The dynamics of value, price and profit. Capital and Class. 35, pp. 146-181.
• The geographical organization of production systems. Society and Space 6(3), 377-408.
• Partly reproduced as: The organization of production systems. IN: C. Hadjimichalis and N. Komninos, Eds. Changing Labour Processes and New Forms of Urbanization (Samos ‘87). Thessaloniki. (1988) 130-145.

1985

• Class, division of labour and employment in space. IN: D. Gregory and J. Urry, Eds. Social Relations and Spatial Structures. London: Macmillan. 164-89.
• Technological determination and determinism: industrial growth and location. IN: M. Castells, Ed., High Technology, Society and Space. Beverly Hills: Sage Publications. 226-64.
• Translated and abridged as: Determination tecnologique et determinisme dans la localisation et la croissance des industries. IN: Cahiers du Centre de Recherches et d’Etudes sur Paris et Ile-de-France (CREPIF), #9, December 1984, pp 274-76.
• Is there a service economy? the changing capitalist division of labor. Science and Society, 49:1, Spring, 42-83.
• Translated and abridged into Japanese by M. Aneha, Kokugakuin Keizai Kenkyu (National Univ. Institute for Economic Research). Paper #19 (1988).

1984

• The price of water: surplus and subsidy in the California state water project. Institute of Governmental Studies, UC Berkeley, monograph. (With M. Storper)
• The spatial division of labor: labor and the location of industry. IN W. Tabb and L. Sawers, Eds. Sunbelt/Snowbelt. New York: Oxford University Press. 19-47. (With M. Storper)
• Reprinted: La division espacial del trabajo. Cuadernos Politicos, 38 (Mexico) Octubre-Diciembre

1983

• The theory of labor and the theory of location. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 7:1, 1-44. (With M. Storper)
• Reprinted: Institute of Industrial Relations, UCLA, Monograph #354.

1982

• The illusion of effluent charges, or regulatory dilution is no solution to pollution. Antipode, 14:2, 12-20.
• A guide for the Ley reader of Marxist criticism. Antipode, 14:1, 38-43. (With D. Greenberg)
• Post-industrialism and political reform in the city: a critique. Antipode, 14:1, 17-32. (With D. Greenberg)
• Water from power: water supply and regional growth in the Santa Clara Valley. Economic Geography, 58:2, 95-119. (With M. Williams)
• Industry. IN E. Engelbert and A. Scheuring, Eds., Competition for California’s Water: Alternative Resolutions. Davis: Water Resources Center, 59-75. (With M. Teitz)
• The expanding California water system. IN W.J. Kockelman, T.J. Conomos & A.E. Leviton, Eds., Use and Protection of the San Francisco Bay System. San Francisco: Pacific Division, AAAS. 171-90. (With M. Storper)

1981

• Industrial location policy: false premises, false conclusions. Built Environment, 6:2, 105-113.
• Performance regulation and industrial location: a case study. Environment and Planning A, 13, 321-38. (With M. Storper and E. Widess)
• Capital and industrial location. Progress in Human Geography, 5:4, 473-509. (With M. Storper)
• Translated: "Capital y localizacion industrial" Documents d’Analisi Geografica, 8-9, 203-44 (Dept. de Geografia, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona) by D. Sauri (1986)
• Quiet revolution for whom? Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 71, 67-83. (With M. Heiman)
• Left-wing libertarianism, an academic disorder. Professional Geographer, 33:1, 5-10.
• A theory of suburbanization: capitalism and the construction of urban space in the United States. IN M. Dear and A. Scott, Eds., Urbanization and Urban Planning under Advanced Capitalist Societies. New York: Methuen, 1981, 383-430.

1980

• Crisis and change in U.S. agriculture: an overview. IN R. Burbach and P. Flynn, Agribusiness in the Americas. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1980, 20-40. (with C. MacLennan)

1979

• The California water system: another round of expansion? Public Affairs Report, 20:2, 1-11. (With M. Storper)
• Editor’s introduction, Special Issue on Natural Resources and Environment. Antipode, 11:2, 1-16.
• The limits of environmental control: the saga of Dow in the Delta. Antipode, 11:2, 1-16. (With M. Storper and E. Widess)

1978

• Two sources of uneven development under advanced capitalism: spatial differentiation and capital mobility. Review of Radical Political Economy, 10:3, 28-39.
• Erosion of the Clean Air Act of 1970: a study in the failure of government regulation and planning. Boston College Environmental Affairs Law Review, 7:2, 189-258. (With M. Storper)
• The transformation of urban structure in the 19th century United States and the beginnings of suburbanization. IN K. Cox, Ed. Urbanization and Conflict in Market Societies. Chicago: Maaroufa Press, 165-213.1975
• The economics of energy extravagance. Ecology Law Quarterly, 4:4, 963-65. (With D. Large.)
• Contentious issues in Marxian value and rent theory: a second and longer look. Antipode, 7:1, 31-54.1974
• Benefit-cost reconsidered: an evaluation of the mid-state project. Water Resources Research, 10:5, 898-908. (With S. H. Hanke.)
• Reprinted: R. Zeckhauser et al., Benefit-cost and policy analysis, 1974: An Aldine Manual. New York: Aldine Publishers, 392-416. and in R. Haveman and J. Margolis, Eds. Public Expenditures and Policy Analysis. Chicago: Rand, McNally. 2d edition, 1977, 329-354; 3d edition, 1983, 324-350.
• Urban ground rent: building a new conceptual framework. Antipode, 6:1, 51-58.
• Reprinted: Die Stadtische Grundrente, Ein Untersuchung zu ihrem Verstaendnis. In J. Barnbrock, Ed. Materialiem zur Oekonomie der Stadplanung. Dusseldorf: Bertelsmann-Verlag, 1975, 241-257. (Revised and translated)
• Wetlands preservation and management: a rejoinder - economics, science and beyond. Coastal Zone Management Journal, 1:2, 227-233.

1973

• Wetlands preservation and management on Chesapeake Bay: the role of science in natural resources policy. Coastal Zone Management Journal, 1:1, 75-100.

Other

• "North America: 500 Years of Social Tectonics" - Working Paper, September 2003
• "No Way Out: Immigrants and the New California" pamphlet on Proposition 187, June 22, 1995, with Jeff Lustig. For Campus Coalition for Human Rights and Social Justice.

Special Journal Issues Edited

1991

• Research Policy, vol 20/5 "Networks of Innovators" (w/ C. DeBresson)

1989

• Antipode, vol 21/2, "What’s Left to Do?"

1978

• Antipode, vol 11/2, "Natural Resources and Environment"

Book Reviews

2008

• M. Klingle, Emerald City: An Environmental History of Seattle. Yale University Press. IN: Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 98(3): 750-52.

2007

• Richard Walker, Suburbia Reconsidered. (Book Review Essay). IN: Urban Geography, 28/8: 809-15.

2006

• David Beesley, Crow's Range: An Environmental History of the Sierra Nevada. Reno: U of Nevada Press, 2004. IN: Pacific Historical Review, August 2006.

• Robert Pollin, Contours of Descent: U.S. Economic Fractures and the Landscape of Global Austerity. London/New York: Verso, 2003. IN: Progress in Human Geography, 30(2): 280-282.

2005

• David Meyer, The Roots of American Industrialization. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. IN: Geogr. Rev. 94/4, 555-58.

1999

• Don Mitchell, Lie of the Land. IN: Geographical Review, October.
• Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust. IN: Chronicle Book Review.

1994

• Michael Gerlach, Alliance Capitalism.. IN: Society and Space.
• Martin Kenney and Richard Florida, 1993. Beyond Mass Production. IN: Economic Geography, 70(1): 76-79, January.

1993

• Roger Lotchin, Fortress California, 1910-1961: From Warfare to Welfare. IN: Economic Geography 69(2): 224-26.
• Frank Fischer, Technology and the Politics of Expertise. IN: Science and Society 57(2): 246-249, 1993.

1992

• A.H. Molina, The Social Basis of the Microelectronics Revolution. IN: Science and Society, 56(2):220-22.

1989

• N. Thrift and Williams, P. eds. (1987) Class and Space: the Making of Urban Society. (London: Routledge). IN: Economic Geography, 65(3):251-55.

1988

• D. Massey (1987) Nicaragua: Some Urban and Regional Issues in a Society in Transition. (London: Open University Press) IN: Environment and Planning A.
• M. Smith and J. Feagin, Eds. (1987) The Capitalist City (New York: Basil Blackwell) IN: Geographical Review .
• E. Relph (1987) The Modern Urban Landscape (London: Croom-Helm) IN: Canadian Geographer

1987

• Edel M., Sclar E. and Luria D. (1984) Shakey Palaces: Homeownership and social mobility in Boston’s suburbanization. IN: Society and Space, v. 5(3) 347-51

1984

• M. Christine Boyer, Dreaming the Rational City: The Myth of American City Planning. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1983. IN: The Annals of the AAG, 75:1, pp. 140-43.

1983

• J. Bryce, Editor, Cities and Firms. Lexington: DC Heath, 1981. C.L. Leven, Editor. The Mature Metropolis. Lexington: DC Heath, 1978. IN: International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 7:2, 278-81.

1982

• F. Sandback, Environment, Ideology and Policy. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1980. IN: Progr in Human Geogr, 6:2, 292-93.

1980

• R. Peet, Editor, Radical Geography: Alternative Viewpoints on Contemporary Social Issues. Chicago: Maaroufa Press, 1977. IN: Prof Geogr, 32:2, 253-54.
• J. Dunkerly, Editor, International Comparisons of Energy Consumption. Washington, D.C.: Resources for the Future, 1978. IN: Prof Geogr, 32:2, 244-45.

1979

• D. Gregory, Ideology, Social Science and Human Geography. London: Hutchinson, 1978. IN: Annals of the AAG 69:3, 518-520.
• M. Castells, The Urban Question. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1977. IN: The Professional Geographer, 31:1, 116-117.
• I. Burton, R. Kates and G.F. White, The Environment as Hazard. New York: Oxford, 1978. IN: Geographical Review, 69:1, 113-224.