Zócalo Public SquareL.A. vs. Seattle: Whose Pacific Rim is it? – Zócalo Public Square https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org Ideas Journalism With a Head and a Heart Mon, 21 Oct 2024 07:01:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 L.A. vs. Seattle: Whose Pacific Rim is it? https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2008/09/04/l-a-vs-seattle-whose-pacific-rim-is-it/events/the-takeaway/ https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2008/09/04/l-a-vs-seattle-whose-pacific-rim-is-it/events/the-takeaway/#respond Thu, 04 Sep 2008 13:51:28 +0000 Zocalo https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/?p=55293 Los Angeles and Seattle have very different histories, economies, leaders, ambitions, and demographic profiles. But both rely upon huge harbor, shipping, and transportation infrastructures as vital to metropolitan and regional growth; both claim intimate and expanding trade and other relationships with the Pacific Rim. Zócalo has gathered together a distinguished panel—UCSD political scientist Steve Erie, David Olson of the University of Washington, and Thomas O’Brien from the Center for International Trade and Transportation at Cal State Long Beach—to discuss these two urban giants’ approach toward Asia. They’ll ask which city is better poised to take advantage of globalization in the Asian century.

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]]> Los Angeles and Seattle have very different histories, economies, leaders, ambitions, and demographic profiles. But both rely upon huge harbor, shipping, and transportation infrastructures as vital to metropolitan and regional growth; both claim intimate and expanding trade and other relationships with the Pacific Rim. Zócalo has gathered together a distinguished panel—UCSD political scientist Steve Erie, David Olson of the University of Washington, and Thomas O’Brien from the Center for International Trade and Transportation at Cal State Long Beach—to discuss these two urban giants’ approach toward Asia. They’ll ask which city is better poised to take advantage of globalization in the Asian century.

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