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James M. Rubenstein |
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Auto Industry I am an auto industry analyst. I study current trends and issues in the auto industry. As a geographer, I am especially interested in where factories open and close - and why. I am author of two books on the auto industry Making and Selling Cars: Innovation and Change in the U.S. Automotive Industry and The Changing U.S. Auto Industry: A Geographical Analysis. I am currently working on a book with Thomas Klier Who Really Made Your Car? which looks at the growing importance of parts suppliers. I am a consultant at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, working with the Regional Analysis Group in the Research Department For more information: |
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Human Geography I am author of the best-selling human geography textbook, The Cultural Landscape: An Introduction to Human Geography, published by Prentice Hall, now in its 9th edition. The book covers basic principles in human geography, including population, migration, culture, political geography, development, economic geography, urban, and environment. For more information: |
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Books 2009 Who Really Made Your Car? Restructuring and Geographic Change in the Auto Industry. Kalamazoo, MI: Upjohn, with Thomas Klier. 2008 The Cultural Landscape 9th ed., Upper Saddle Lake, NJ: Prentice Hall. 8th ed. 2005, 7th ed. update 2003, 7th ed. 2002, 6th ed. 1999, 5th ed. 1996, 4th ed. 1994, 3rd ed. 1992, 2nd ed. 1989; 1st ed. 1981. 2001 Making and Selling Cars: Innovation and Change in the U.S. Automotive Industry. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press. 2002 An Introduction to Geography: People, Places, and Environment. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, with William H. Renwick. 1992 The Changing U.S. Auto Industry: A Geographical Analysis. London: Routledge. 1978 The French New Towns. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press.
Articles and chapters in books 2007 “Whose Part Is It?—Measuring Domestic Content of Vehicles,” Chicago Fed Letter 243, pp. 1-4, with Thomas Klier. 2007 “Motor Vehicle Manufacturing.” In Richard Sisson, Christian Zacher, and Andrew Cayton, eds. The American Midwest: An Interpretive Encyclopedia. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, pp. 1219-21. 2006 “The Supplier Industry in Transition—The New Geography of Auto Production,” Chicago Fed Letter 229b, pp. 1-4, with Thomas Klier. 2006 “The U.S. Auto Supplier Industry in Transition - The New Geography of Auto Production,” Chicago Fed Letter 229b, pp. 1-4, with Thomas Klier. 2006 “The U.S. Auto Supplier Industry in Transition,” Chicago Fed Letter 226, pp. 1-4, with Thomas Klier. 2006 “Competition and Trade in the U.S. Auto Parts Sector,” Chicago Fed Letter 222, pp. 1-4, with Thomas Klier. 2004 “Motor Vehicles on the American Landscape.” In S. D. Brunn, S. L. Cutter, and J. W. Harrington, eds. Geography and Technology. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 267-283. 2003 “Transportation and Travel,” In Stanley I. Kutler, ed. Dictionary of American History. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, vol. 8, pp. 185-92. 2003 “Roads.” In Stanley I. Kutler, ed. Dictionary of American History. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, vol. 7, pp. 175-80. 2002 “Urban Geography.” In Melvin Ember and Carol R. Ember, eds. Encyclopedia of Urban Cultures. Vol 1. Danbury, CT: Grolier, pp. 19-26. 2002 “London.” In Melvin Ember and Carol R. Ember, eds. Encyclopedia of Urban Cultures. Vol 3. Danbury, CT: Grolier, pp. 64-72. 2001 “Luxembourg.” In Melvin Ember and Carol R. Ember, eds. Countries and Their Cultures. New York: Macmillan, pp. 1316-1323. 1996 “The Evolving Geography of Production--Is Manufacturing Activity Moving out of the Midwest? Evidence from the Auto Industry.” In Thomas H. Klier (ed.), Assessing the Midwest Economy: Looking Back for the Future. Chicago: Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago SP-3 (pp. 1-19). 1994 “National Content of Motor Vehicles,” Geographical Review 84(2), pp. 186-200. 1992 “Planning After the Fall of Communism in the Czech Republic,” Focus 42(4), pp. 1-6, with B. L. Unger. 1992 “What Is an ‘American’ Car? Global Interdependency in the Automotive Industry,” in Tom Martinson and Susan Brooker-Gross (eds.), Revisiting the Americas: Teaching and Learning the Geography of the Western Hemisphere. Indiana, PA: NCGE (pp. 65-70). 1992 “America’s ‘Just-in-Time’ Highways: I-65 and I-75,” in Donald G. Janelle (ed.), Geographical Snapshots of North America. New York and London: The Guilford Press (pp. 432-435). 1991 “The Impact of Japanese Investment in the United States,” in C.M. Law (ed.), Restructuring the Global Automobile Industry. London: Routledge (pp. 114-142). 1991 “Advocating Affordable Housing in New Hampshire: The Amicus Curiae Brief of the American Planning Association in Wayne Britton v. Town of Chester,” Washington University Journal of Urban and Contemporary Law 40, pp. 3-48 (one of eight authors). 1990 “Japanese Motor Vehicle Producers in the USA: Where and Why,” Focus 40(2), pp. 7-11. 1988 “Relocation of Families for Public Improvement Projects: Lessons from Baltimore,” Journal of the American Planning Association 44(1), pp. 185-97. 1988 “Changing Distribution of American Motor-Vehicle-Parts Suppliers,” Geographical Review 78(3), pp. 288-98. 1988 “The Changing Distribution of U.S. Automobile Assembly Plants,” Focus 38(3), pp. 12-17. 1988 “The Changing Distribution of U.S. Motor Vehicle Parts Suppliers,” Focus 38(4), pp. 10-14. 1988 “Changes in Ohio’s Motor Vehicle Parts Supplier Industry,” Ohio Geographers 16, pp. 42-56. 1987 “Leisure Participation and Satisfaction in Two European Communities,” Journal of Cross-cultural Gerontology 2(1), pp. 17-36. 1987 “Outdoor Recreation in Two European Communities,” The International Journal of Aging and Human Development 25(2), pp. 131-48. 1986 “Changing Distribution of the American Automobile Industry,” Geographical Review 76(3), pp. 288-300. 1979 “Housing the Elderly in Europe,” East Lakes Geographer 14, pp. 50-59. 1978 “The Impact of Relocation Activities on Baltimore,” Journal of Housing 35(10), pp. 534-38, with R. Ferguson. 1978 “French New-Town Policy,” in Gideon Golany (ed.), International Urban Growth Policies: New-Town Contributions. New York: John Wiley, pp. 75-103.
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