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Full-time Academic Staff: Teaching Staff

Professor Patrick Adler

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Room 10.18

391 77460

adler@hku.hk

Assistant Professor 

BA, MA, Toronto; PhD, UCLA

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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; 2nd Semester

GEOG2164

The Creative City

6

credits

Annual; 2nd Semester

GEOG6007

Research Methods in Geography

6

credits

Annual; 1st Semester

Selected Publications

  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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