The Capitalist city : global restructuring and community politics / edited by Michael Peter Smith & Joe R. Feagin
1st edition Hardcover Oxford [Oxfordshire], UK ; New York, NY, USA : B. Blackwell, 1987
Book Publishing Details
| Author: | Smith, M. P |
| Full title: | The Capitalist city : global restructuring and community politics / edited by Michael Peter Smith & Joe R. Feagin |
| Publisher: | Oxford [Oxfordshire], UK ; New York, NY, USA : B. Blackwell, 1987 |
| Edition: | 1st edition |
| Binding: | Hardcover |
| ISBN: | 0631151826 |
| EAN: | 9780631151821 |
| Book ID: | 395168 |
Comments & Item Features
1st edition. Language: English. ISBN: 0631151826. EAN: 9780631151821.
Fine title-blocked cloth copy in a very good, slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.
Physical description; vi, 393 pages ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes Bibliographical references and index. Contents; Cities and the new international division of labor : an overview / Joe R. Feagin and Michael Peter Smith -- Theoretical perspectives : the global economy, the state and the city. World-system theory and the study of comparative urbanization / Michael Timberlake -- Cities and the international division of labor / Norman J. Glickman -- Urban theory reconsidered : production, reproduction and collective action / Michael Peter Smith and Richard Tardanico -- Economic restructuring in cities : a global perspective. The politics of dependency in deindustrializing America : the case of Buffalo, New York / David C. Perry -- Growth and informalization at the core : a preliminary report on New York City / Saskia Sassen-Koob -- Detroit and Houston : two cities in global perspective / Richard Child Hill and Joe R. Feagin -- Economic restructuring and the internationalization of the Los Angeles region / Edward W. Soja -- Lima and the new international division of labor / Patricia Ann Wilson. (cont.) State responses to global restructuring. The state, capital and urban change in Britain / Desmond S. King -- Plant closures in socialist France / Sophie Body-Gendrot -- Urbanization, the informal economy and state policy in Latin America / Helen I. Safa -- Local responses to global restructuring : community, household and urban politics. Community and corporations in the restructuring of industry / June Nash -- Urban survival strategies, family structure and informal practices / Enzo Mingione -- Local mobilization and economic discontent / Susan S. Fainstein -- Restructuring and popular opposition in West German cities / Margit Mayer -- Urban protest and the global political economy : the IMF riots / John Walton. Subjects; Urban economics. Urbanization. Capitalism. Urban policy. Urbanization�conomie urbaine. Urbanisation. Capitalisme. Politique urbaine.Capitalism. Urban economics. Stadt. Stadt�konomie. Strukturwandel. Weltwirtschaft. Aufsatzsammlung. Stedelijke ontwikkeling. Internationale arbeidsverdeling. Urbanization Case studies. Capitalism Political aspects. Cities and towns Economics of. International business enterprises. International business enterprises. Urban Development. Cities and towns. Urban economics.
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Fine title-blocked cloth copy in a very good, slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.
Physical description; vi, 393 pages ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes Bibliographical references and index. Contents; Cities and the new international division of labor : an overview / Joe R. Feagin and Michael Peter Smith -- Theoretical perspectives : the global economy, the state and the city. World-system theory and the study of comparative urbanization / Michael Timberlake -- Cities and the international division of labor / Norman J. Glickman -- Urban theory reconsidered : production, reproduction and collective action / Michael Peter Smith and Richard Tardanico -- Economic restructuring in cities : a global perspective. The politics of dependency in deindustrializing America : the case of Buffalo, New York / David C. Perry -- Growth and informalization at the core : a preliminary report on New York City / Saskia Sassen-Koob -- Detroit and Houston : two cities in global perspective / Richard Child Hill and Joe R. Feagin -- Economic restructuring and the internationalization of the Los Angeles region / Edward W. Soja -- Lima and the new international division of labor / Patricia Ann Wilson. (cont.) State responses to global restructuring. The state, capital and urban change in Britain / Desmond S. King -- Plant closures in socialist France / Sophie Body-Gendrot -- Urbanization, the informal economy and state policy in Latin America / Helen I. Safa -- Local responses to global restructuring : community, household and urban politics. Community and corporations in the restructuring of industry / June Nash -- Urban survival strategies, family structure and informal practices / Enzo Mingione -- Local mobilization and economic discontent / Susan S. Fainstein -- Restructuring and popular opposition in West German cities / Margit Mayer -- Urban protest and the global political economy : the IMF riots / John Walton. Subjects; Urban economics. Urbanization. Capitalism. Urban policy. Urbanization�conomie urbaine. Urbanisation. Capitalisme. Politique urbaine.Capitalism. Urban economics. Stadt. Stadt�konomie. Strukturwandel. Weltwirtschaft. Aufsatzsammlung. Stedelijke ontwikkeling. Internationale arbeidsverdeling. Urbanization Case studies. Capitalism Political aspects. Cities and towns Economics of. International business enterprises. International business enterprises. Urban Development. Cities and towns. Urban economics.
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