Population growth and distribution -- Employment and economic growth -- Land for urban needs -- Reclamation of marsh, tide, and submerged lands.

Excerpt from Industrial Survey of Upper San Francisco Bay Area: With Special Reference to a Salt Water Barrier Below Confluence of Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers This report is one of a series of bulletins on the State Water Plan issued by the Division of Water Resources pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 832, Statutes of 1929, directing further investigations of the water resources of California. The series includes Bulletins Nos. 25 to 36, inclusive. Bulletin No. 25, Report to Legislature Of 1931 on State Water Plan, is a summary report. Of the entire-investigation. Prior to the studies carried out under this act, the water resources investigation had been in progress more or less continuously since 1921 under several statutory enactments. The results of the earlier work have been published as Bulletins Nos. 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 11, 12, 19 and 20 of the former Division of Engineering and Irrigation, Nos. 5, 6 and 7 of the former Division of Water Rights, and Nos. 22 and 24 of the Division of Water Resources. This report is a part of a general economic investigation of a salt water barrier below the confluence of the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers. It also is printed as Appendix A in Bulletin 28, which covers the entire subject. It deals with the economic aspects of a barrier as related to present and future industrial development in the upper San Francisco Bay area with particular reference to water supply. The investigation, covering a period of six months, is based-in substantial part on 101 replies from a comprehensive questionnaire submitted by the State Engineer to 114 industries located in the upper San Francisco Bay area. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Today, the Bay Area is home to the most successful knowledge economy in America, while Los Angeles has fallen progressively further behind its neighbor to the north and a number of other American metropolises. Yet, in 1970, experts would have predicted that L.A. would outpace San Francisco in population, income, economic power, and influence. The usual factors used to explain urban growth—luck, immigration, local economic policies, and the pool of skilled labor—do not account for the contrast between the two cities and their fates. So what does? The Rise and Fall of Urban Economies challenges many of the conventional notions about economic development and sheds new light on its workings. The authors argue that it is essential to understand the interactions of three major components—economic specialization, human capital formation, and institutional factors—to determine how well a regional economy will cope with new opportunities and challenges. Drawing on economics, sociology, political science, and geography, they argue that the economic development of metropolitan regions hinges on previously underexplored capacities for organizational change in firms, networks of people, and networks of leaders. By studying San Francisco and Los Angeles in unprecedented levels of depth, this book extracts lessons for the field of economic development studies and urban regions around the world.