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Professor Patrick J ADLER

Assistant Professor 

Room 10.18
391 77460
adler@hku.hk

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Research Interests

  • Creative Economy

  • Entertainment Industries

  • Urban Evolution

  • Urban Technology

  • Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Courses

CCGL9021

Globalization and Tourism

6

credits

Annual; 1st Semester

GEOG2030

Global Development

6

credits

Annual; 1st Semester

GEOG2164

The Creative City

6

credits

Annual; 2nd Semester

Selected Publications

  2023  

  2022  

  • Silver, D., Silva, T. H., & Adler, P. (2022). Changing the Scene: applying four models of social evolution to the scenescape. arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.10665. https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.10665
     

  • Florida, R., & Adler, P. (2022). Locational strategy: Understanding location in economic geography and corporate strategy. Global Strategy Journal. https://doi.org/10.1002/gsj.1456
     

  • ​Adler, P. J. (2022). Policy Diffusion in Regional Evolution: A Study of the CEDS Program. In The Global Conference on Economic Geography.
     

  • Silver, D., Adler, P. J., & Fox, M. (2022). Towards a Model of Urban Evolution—Part I: Context. Urban Science, 6, 87. https://doi.org/10.3390/urbansci6040087
     

  • Silver, D., Fox, M., & Adler, P. J. (2022). Towards a Model of Urban Evolution—Part III: Rules of Evolution. Urban Science, 6, 89. https://doi.org/10.3390/urbansci6040089
     

  • Adler, P. J. (2022). Yes.. Reap.. From Brooklyn? Place Brand Equity in Digital Marketplaces. In Druid2022.

  2021  

  • “The Spatial Diffusion of Urban Forms” in The Oxford Handbook of Spatial Diversity and Business Economics, with Daniel Silver
     

  • “Venues and Segregation: A Revised Schelling Model” in Plos One, with Daniel Silver and Ultan Byrne

  2020  

  • “Mega Regions and Pandemics” in Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie, with Richard Florida and Maxx Hartt
     

  • “The city and high-tech start-ups: The spatial organization of Schumpeterian entrepreneurship” Cities, with Richard Florida, Karen King and Charlotta Mellander

  2019  

  • “Economic Geography” in The International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, 2nd Edition Edited by Brij Maharaj.
     

  • "Geography as strategy: the changing geography of corporate headquarters in post-industrial capitalism." Regional Studies 1-11.

  2018  

  • "The Patchwork Metropolis: The Morphology of the Divided Post-Industrial City”, Journal of Urban Affairs, with Richard Florida, Editor: Zach Neal

  2017  

  • “The City as Innovation Machine”, Regional Studies, with Richard Florida and Charlotta Mellander

  2016  

  • “The Divided City and the Patchwork Metropolis”, in , In the Post-Urban World: Emergent Transformations of Cities and Regions in the Innovative Global Economy, Edited by Tigran Haas & Hand Westlund, Routledge, London, 2017, forthcoming.

  2015  

  • “Creativity in the City” in The Oxford Handbook of Creative Industries, Edited by Candace Jones, Mark Lorenzen,and Jonathan Sapsed, with Richard Florida and Charlotta Mellander. pp. 96-115.  

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