Industry in Motion: Using Smart Phones to Explore the Spatial Network of the Garment Industry in New York City
Industrial agglomerations have long been thought to offer economic and social benefits to firms and people that are only captured by location within their specified geographies. Using the case study of New York City’s garment industry along with data acquired from cell phones and social media, this...
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| author | Williams, Sarah E. Currid-Halkett, Elizabeth |
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| description | Industrial agglomerations have long been thought to offer economic and social benefits to firms and people that are only captured by location within their specified geographies. Using the case study of New York City’s garment industry along with data acquired from cell phones and social media, this study set out to understand the discrete activities underpinning the economic dynamics of an industrial agglomeration. Over a two week period, data was collected by employing the geo-locative capabilities of Foursquare, a social media application, to record every movement of fashion workers employed at fashion design firms located both inside and outside the geographical boundaries of New York City’s Garment District. This unique method of studying worker activity exposed the day-to-day dynamics of an industrial district with a precision thus far undocumented in literature. Our work suggests that having access to the cluster provides almost the same agglomeration economies as residing within its borders. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/861852022-09-30T14:34:05Z Industry in Motion: Using Smart Phones to Explore the Spatial Network of the Garment Industry in New York City Williams, Sarah E. Currid-Halkett, Elizabeth Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Urban Studies and Planning Williams, Sarah E. Industrial agglomerations have long been thought to offer economic and social benefits to firms and people that are only captured by location within their specified geographies. Using the case study of New York City’s garment industry along with data acquired from cell phones and social media, this study set out to understand the discrete activities underpinning the economic dynamics of an industrial agglomeration. Over a two week period, data was collected by employing the geo-locative capabilities of Foursquare, a social media application, to record every movement of fashion workers employed at fashion design firms located both inside and outside the geographical boundaries of New York City’s Garment District. This unique method of studying worker activity exposed the day-to-day dynamics of an industrial district with a precision thus far undocumented in literature. Our work suggests that having access to the cluster provides almost the same agglomeration economies as residing within its borders. Rockefeller Foundation 2014-04-16T19:37:53Z 2014-04-16T19:37:53Z 2014-02 2013-07 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 1932-6203 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/86185 Williams, Sarah, and Elizabeth Currid-Halkett. “Industry in Motion: Using Smart Phones to Explore the Spatial Network of the Garment Industry in New York City.” Edited by José Javier Ramasco. PLoS ONE 9, no. 2 (February 5, 2014): e86165. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8662-8506 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0086165 PLoS ONE Creative Commons Attribution http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ application/pdf Public Library of Science PLoS |
| spellingShingle | Williams, Sarah E. Currid-Halkett, Elizabeth Industry in Motion: Using Smart Phones to Explore the Spatial Network of the Garment Industry in New York City |
| title | Industry in Motion: Using Smart Phones to Explore the Spatial Network of the Garment Industry in New York City |
| title_full | Industry in Motion: Using Smart Phones to Explore the Spatial Network of the Garment Industry in New York City |
| title_fullStr | Industry in Motion: Using Smart Phones to Explore the Spatial Network of the Garment Industry in New York City |
| title_full_unstemmed | Industry in Motion: Using Smart Phones to Explore the Spatial Network of the Garment Industry in New York City |
| title_short | Industry in Motion: Using Smart Phones to Explore the Spatial Network of the Garment Industry in New York City |
| title_sort | industry in motion using smart phones to explore the spatial network of the garment industry in new york city |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/86185 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8662-8506 |
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