Interesting cluster study (Pittsburgh, Industry, Houston: natural gas, health, rated)

[BrianTH]

You can get the full explanation here, but this is basically a study of which sectors are most unusually concentrated in 30 large metros, including Pittsburgh:

Industry Sectors That Define The Nation’s Largest Metro Areas « EMSI | Economic Modeling Specialists Inc.

Here is the East:

Industry Sectors That Define The East « EMSI | Economic Modeling Specialists Inc.



Personally, I sense a certain Paris of Appalachia vibe to Pittsburgh's Top 3 list.

More commentary here:

Burgh Diaspora - Economic Development From Geographic Mobility

[BrianTH]

Speaking of Paris of Appalachia, more from Burgh Diaspora:

http://burghdiaspora.blogspot.com/20...on-nation.html

That's all about an interesting take on the cultural geography of the United States, encapsulated in this map:

http://www.wamo.info/mag/1111/1111.woodard_article.jpg (broken link)

[squarian]

Originally Posted by BrianTH

I sense a certain Paris of Appalachia vibe

Paris, Texas maybe, assuming the 32% expansion in fuel extraction proves correct.

[squarian]

Originally Posted by BrianTH

That's all about an interesting take on the cultural geography of the United States, encapsulated in this map

The US, maybe, but whoever cooked this up knows nothing about Canada's cultural geography. Southern Ontario should properly be labelled "Canada", while everything between Lake Huron and the Rockies is correctly known as "The Colonies". B.C., of course, is Lotus Land.

[BrianTH]

Originally Posted by squarian

Paris, Texas maybe, assuming the 32% expansion in fuel extraction proves correct.

Something has to put the Appalachia in "Paris of Appalachia" (the other two things supply the Paris part).

[pman]

or southwest boston according to the first post

[BrianTH]

Originally Posted by pman

or southwest boston according to the first post

We've also got that management cluster thing (#2 on our list), which we share with Cincy and Minneapolis (#1 on their lists):



"Three parts Boston, and one part each of Minneapolis, Cincy, and Houston" sounds about right, but "Paris of Appalachia" is more poetic.

[Mr. Mon]

Three Quick Thoughts
1) I wonder what the number is for Specialty Healthcare? My intuitive guess is that it is significantly larger than the Crude Petroleum and Natural Gas number, but the later was listed due to the high projected increase.

3) The local government number for Miami are disturbing. That's beyond the reach of large state capitals. What's going on in South Florida?

3) The cultural map seems like like a lot of cultural anthropological mental stretching. Especially after reading its creator's rationale.

[BrianTH]

Originally Posted by Mr. Mon

1) I wonder what the number is for Specialty Healthcare? My intuitive guess is that it is significantly larger than the Crude Petroleum and Natural Gas number, but the later was listed due to the high projected increase.

I'm sure total jobs is higher, but LQ might also be lower (it could go either way as far as I would guess).

3) The cultural map seems like like a lot of cultural anthropological mental stretching. Especially after reading its creator's rationale.

Yeah, I kinda agree, although I do think there are cultural patterns arising from historical migration trends that can get overlooked when people de facto insist on geographically compact and contiguous cultural regions.