Beyond City Limits: Urban Policy and Economic Reconstructuring in Comparative Perspective (Conflicts In Urban & Regional Development)

✍ Scribed by John Logan, Todd Swanstrom

• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Year: 1991
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 290
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book challenges the notion that there is a single, global process of economic restructuring to which cities must submit. The studies in this volume compare urban development in the United States, Western Europe, and Japan, demonstrating that there is significant variety in urban economic restructuring. The contributors emphasize that the economic forces transforming cities from industrial concentrations to post industrial service centers do not exist apart from politics: all nation-states are heavily involved in the restructuring process. John R. Logan is Professor of Sociology at the State University of New York at Albany. Todd Swanstrom is Associate Professor of Political Science at the State University of New York at Albany and the author of "The Crisis of Growth Politics: Cleveland, Kucinich, and the Challenge of Urban Populism (Temple)".

✦ Table of Contents

CONTENTS......Page 8
Preface......Page 10
Part I. Introduction......Page 14
1. Urban Restructuring: A Critical View......Page 16
Part II. Urban Policy: National and International......Page 38
2. Political Paradoxes of Urban Restructuring: Globalization of the Economy and Localization of Politics?......Page 40
3. Industrial Restructuring, State Intervention, and Uneven Development in the United States and Japan......Page 73
4.
Political Responses to Urban Restructuring: The British Experience under Thatcherism......Page 99
Part III. The Limits and Possibilities of Local Policy......Page 130
5. Economics, Politics, and Development Policy: The Convergence of New York and London......Page 132
6. Postindustrialism with a Difference: Global Capitalism in World-Class Cities......Page 163
7. Urban Deals in Comparative Perspective......Page 188
8. Space for Progressive Local Policy: Examples from the United States and the United Kingdom......Page 212
Part IV. Reflections......Page 248
9. Beyond the City Limits: A Commentary......Page 250
10. Theoretical Methods in Comparative Urban Politics......Page 256
About the Contributors......Page 274
Subject Index......Page 277
Author Index......Page 284