My research focuses on financial and other corporate decision-makers and their interactions within and among global cities, especially in Asia. I focus on Asian business networks, especially financial, and their role in the economic development of the region. I also have studied 19th-century urban-industrial growth in the United States. Currently, I am studying the financial networks of Hong Kong and Asia, with a grant funded by the National Science Foundation.

My research focuses on financial and other corporate decision-makers and their interactions within and among global cities. I travel to Hong Kong regularly for research and have interviewed many financiers and other senior corporate leaders there as part of my work on financial change and global cities. This was published as Hong Kong as a Global Metropolis (Cambridge University Press, 2000). I also have studied urban and regional development in the 19th-century United States. This was published by Johns Hopkins University Press as The Roots of American Industrialization (2003). My new book, Networked Machinists: High-Technology Industries in Antebellum America , was published in 2006 by Johns Hopkins University Press. [http://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title_pages/8988.html] My current research is on the financial networks of Asia, especially as organized from Hong Kong.

Current Grants

2005-2007: Principal investigator, National Science Foundation Research Grant, Geography and Regional Science Program: "The Financial Networks of Hong Kong," GRS-0451945 ($199,902)

Completed Grants

2001-2005: Principal investigator, Salomon Faculty Research Award, Brown University, "The New Chinese Business Leaders in Hong Kong" ($10,000)

1990-1993: Principal investigator, National Science Foundation Research Grant, Geography and Regional Science Program: "Metropolitan Industrial Complexes in the 19th Century," SES-9009285 ($70,085)

1984-1986: Principal investigator, National Science Foundation Research Grant, Geography and Regional Science Program: "Spatial Dynamics of the American Manufacturing Belt, 1840-1880," SES-8319058 ($50,751)

Meyer, David R., 2006, Networked Machinists: High-Technology Industries in Antebellum America (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press). http://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title_pages/8988.html

_____, 2005, "The Challenges of Research on the Global Network of Cities," Urban Geography in America, 1950-2000, edited by Brian J. L. Berry and James O. Wheeler (New York: Routledge), pp. 217-31. [Reprint of David R. Meyer, "The Challenges of Research on the Global Network of Cities," Urban Geography, Vol. 24, No. 4 (2003), pp. 301-13.]

_____, 2005, "Industrial Landscape," The Encyclopedia of New England: The Culture and History of an American Region, edited by Burt Feintuch and David H. Watters (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press), pp. 573-74.

_____, 2004, "American Industrialization," EH.Net Encyclopedia, edited by Robert Whaples, May 13. URL http://www.eh.net/encyclopedia/contents/meyer.industrialization.php (11 pages).

_____, 2003, "The Challenges of Research on the Global Network of Cities," Urban Geography, Vol. 24, No. 4, pp. 301-13.

_____, 2003, The Roots of American Industrialization (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press).

_____, 2002, "Hong Kong: Global Capital Exchange," Global Networks, Linked Cities, edited by Saskia Sassen (New York, NY: Routledge), pp. 249-71.

_____, 2001, "The National Integration of Regional Economies, 1860-1920," North America: The Historical Geography of a Changing Continent, edited by Thomas F. McIlwraith and Edward K. Muller (2nd ed.; Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield), pp. 307-31. [Revision of chapter in 1st edition, published in 1987]

Llobrera, Joseph; Meyer, David R.; and Gregory Nammacher, 2000, "Trajectories of Industrial Districts: Impact of Strategic Intervention in Medical Districts," Economic Geography, Vol. 76 (January), pp. 68-98.

_____, 2000, Hong Kong as a Global Metropolis (Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press).

1991: Masters of Arts, Ad Eundem, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island

American Sociological Association

Association of American Geographers

Economic History Association

I teach courses dealing with corporations and global cities, business networks in Asia, social capital and social networks, downtown development, and introductory statistics for social research.