Richard Walker
Richard Walker
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About Richard Walker
Richard A. Walker is a professor of geography at University of California Berkeley. He received his B.A. in Economics from Stanford University and his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University. Since 1990, Professor Walker’s focus has been on California, a major economic, political and cultural hearth of world capitalism. Professor Walker’s best known work is in economic geography, especially The Capitalist Imperative: Territory, Technology and Industrial Growth (Blackwell, 1989), with Michael Storper. Other writing in this vein includes, "The geography of production" In Sheppard & Barnes, eds. Companion to Economic Geography (2000) and "Putting Capital in its Place: Globalization and the Prospects for Labor" Geo-forum (1999). Professor Walker's most recent book concerns the creation of the San Francisco Bay Area greenbelt and the local environmental movement, The Country in the City: The Greening of the San Francisco Bay Area (University of Washington Press, 2007)
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