Research Interests
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Creative Economy
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Entertainment Industries
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Urban Evolution
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Urban Technology
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Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Selected Publications
2025
Adler, P., & Florida, R. (2025). The city as campus: regional organization of research universities. ZFW – Advances in Economic Geography, 69(2), 78-93. https://doi.org/10.1515/zfw-2025-0063
2024
Adler, P. (2024). Brand on the run: place brands as judgement devices and sources of local advantage in the music industry. Regional Studies, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2024.2306326
Adler, P. and T. Osman (2024). "Die Another Day: Hollywood Transformed in the Streaming Era." Otis College Report on the Creative Economy.
Adler, P. (2024). "Red hot city: Housing, race, and exclusion in twenty-first-century Atlanta, by Dan Immergluck." Journal of Urban Affairs 46(9): 1936-1938.
2023
Adler, P. (2023). Urban play: Make believe, technology, and urban space, by Fabio Duarte and Ricardo Álvarez. Journal of Urban Affairs, 45(1), 112-114. https://doi.org/10.1080/07352166.2022.2084286
Adler, P. (2023). Red hot city: Housing, race, and exclusion in twenty-first-century Atlanta, by Dan Immergluck. Journal of Urban Affairs, 1-2. https://doi.org/10.1080/07352166.2023.2232710
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.

