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The Capitalist city : global restructuring and community politics

Title
The Capitalist city : global restructuring and community politics / edited by Michael Peter Smith & Joe R. Feagin.
Publication
Oxford [Oxfordshire], UK ; New York, NY, USA : B. Blackwell, 1987.

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Additional Authors
  • Smith, Michael P.
  • Feagin, Joe R.
Description
vi, 393 p.; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Ideas
Uniform Title
Ideas.
Subject
  • Urban economics
  • Urbanization
  • Capitalism
  • Urban policy
  • Urbanization
  • urbanization
  • capitalism
  • Stadt
  • Stadtökonomie
  • Strukturwandel
  • Weltwirtschaft
  • Aufsatzsammlung
  • Stedelijke ontwikkeling
  • Internationale arbeidsverdeling
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographies 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.
ISBN
  • 0631151826
  • 9780631151821
  • 0631156186
  • 9780631156185
  • 0673115618 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
86026841
OCLC
  • ocm14413184
  • 14413184
  • SCSB-8936365
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library