Background
Pick, James Block was born on July 29, 1943 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Grant Julius and Helen P. Bachelor, Northwestern University, 1966.
( To understand contemporary Mexico, it is absolutely nec...)
To understand contemporary Mexico, it is absolutely necessary to examine its level of development, and its relationship with the rest of the world. The level of development will, most likely, be related to the world system network, although the concepts are not identical. In Understanding Mexico and Mexico City in the World Economy, the authors aim to determine Mexico's level of development, and how Mexico fits into the world system.Through their research, the authors provide outcomes that will develop a more refined world systems approach. The book features cluster analyses of Mexican economic development levels, sector case studies including specific spatial analyses and maps of trends in Mexico, a systematic theoretic framework encompassing levels of the world, national, and local areas, and recent data presented through maps, tables, charts, and statistical summaries. The text will prove to be useful and practical for researchers, academics, and others interested in Mexico and its international linkages.
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( With a population of 15 million persons in 1990, Mexico...)
With a population of 15 million persons in 1990, Mexico City is one of the world’s largest cities. It is a famous center of civilizations and culture and one of the economic capitals of the Americas, but it also has serious social and economic problems, including large impoverished zones, severe environmental degradation, crime, and overpopulation.This book describes and analyzes growth, change, and spatial patterns in Mexico City, looking at urbanization, population, marriage and fertility, health and mortality, migration, environment and housing, social characteristics, the economy, labor force, and corporate structure. Applying modern techniques of geographic information systems and spatial analysis, the authors reveal many previously unknown or unrecognized trends and patterns. In a capstone chapter, they summarize the spatial patterns in a series of cluster analyses that identify distinctive zones within the metropolis—a prosperous core, surrounding complex ring patterns, an impoverished zone, and semi-rural arms. They also compare the pattern of Mexico City’s cluster zones to the classical and developmental literature on cities. In closing, the authors suggest government policies that would foster optimal future development of an even larger metropolis.This book addresses a topic of growing importance. The United Nations predicts the emergence of many more giant cities worldwide over the next quarter century, most of which will appear in the developing world. Mexico Megacity is a milestone work that increases our knowledge about one developing world megacity while offering analytical tools for studying others.
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(What are the effects on an isolated region when an entire...)
What are the effects on an isolated region when an entirely new and major energy resource is developed to commercial proportions? What happens to the population, the economy, the environment, the community, and societal relations? How does the government frame work respond, the family structure adapt, the economy expand, and life styles change under the impact of new forces which hold a prom ise of much benefit and a risk of adverse consequences? Imperial County, California, has a population of less than 90,000 people. This population has been exceptionally stable for years, cen tered as it is in an agricultural and recreational framework. The county is somewhat cut off from other areas by geographic barriers of moun'" tains and desert, by state and natural boundaries, and is the most remote of all 58 counties of California from the state capitol, Sacra mento. In the decade of the 1950s, geographical explorations for oil re vealed some anomalous structures underlying the desert and agricul tural areas in Imperial County. These, when drilled, seemed to be oil less and hot, and so lacked attractiveness to petroleum wildcatters. In the decade of the 1960s, Dr.
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Pick, James Block was born on July 29, 1943 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Grant Julius and Helen P. Bachelor, Northwestern University, 1966.
Bachelor, Northwestern University, 1966. Master of Science in Education, Northern Illinois University, 1969. Doctor of Philosophy, University California, Irvine, 1974.
Assistant research statistician, lecturer Graduate School Management, University California, Riverside, 1975-1991, director computing, 1984-1991. Co-director United States-Mexico Database Project, 1988-1991. Associate professor management and business, director information management program University Redlands, California, 1991-1995, 99-01, professor business, since 1995, chair department management and business, 1995-1997, 98-99, chair faculty assembly School Business, 2001—2004.
Chair University Commission Academic Planning & Standards, 2010—2011. Visiting professor University Iberoam., Mexico City, 1997, Mexico City, 2001. Consultant international division United States Census Bureau, 1978.
Member University Commons. Board, 1982—1986; member national curriculum task force Instruction Section, 1997. Member University Commission Future Business Programs, 1998—2000.
President Orange County chapter Association Systems Management, 1978—1979. Member board governors PCCLAS, Association Borderlands Studies, 1989—1992, vice president, 2000—2001, president, since 2002. Board professionals advisors demographic analysis University California, Irvine, since 2002.
Member executive council Information Resources Management Association, 2003—2007. Visiting researcher Center for Research on Immigration, Population, and Public Policy University California, Irvine, 2005. External faculty research associate CRITO, University California, Irvine, since 2006.
Visiting researcher department sociology University California, Irvine, 2009.
(What are the effects on an isolated region when an entire...)
( To understand contemporary Mexico, it is absolutely nec...)
( With a population of 15 million persons in 1990, Mexico...)
Trustee Newport Harbor Art Museum, 1981—1987, 1988—1996, member acquisitions committee, 1987—1991, vice president, 1991—1996. Trustee, chairman collection committee Orange County Museum Art, since 1996. Member committee Block Museum, 1999—2001, member board advisors, since 2006.
Trustee Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archives, since 2003. Member Regional Advisory Council, KPCC Public Radio, since 2009. Member of American Association for the Advancement of Science, Association for Information Systems, Association American Geographers, Sociedad de Demografia Mexicana, International Union Science Study Population, Population Association American, American Statistical Association, American Sociological Association, Association Computing Machinery, Standard Club (Chicago).