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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 postindustrial service centers do not exist apart from politics: all nation-states are heavily involved in the restructuring process.
Contributors: Pierre Clavel, Susan Fainstein, Richard Child Hill, Nancy Kleniewski, Harvey L. Molotch, Michael Parkinson, Edmond Preteceille, Saskia Sassen, H. V. Savitch, John Walton, and the editors.
In the series Conflicts in Urban and Regional Development, edited by John R. Logan and Todd Swanstrom.
List of contents
Preface
Part I: Introduction
1. Urban Restructuring: A Critical View - John R. Logan and Todd Swanstrom
Part II. Urban Policy: National and International Comparisons
2. Political Paradoxes of Urban Restructuring: Globalization of the Economy and Localization of Politics? - Edmond Preteceille
3. Industrial Restructuring, State Intervention, and Uneven Development in the United States and Japan - Richard C. Hill
4. Political Responses to Urban Restructuring: The British Experience under Thatcherism - Michael Parkinson
Part III. The Limits and Possibilities of Local Policy
5. Economics, Politics, and Development Policy: The Convergence of New York and London - Susan Fainstein
6. Postindustrialism with a Difference: Global Capitalism in World Class Cities - H. V. Savitch
7. Urban Deals in Comparative Perspective - Harvey L. Molotch
8. Space for Progressive Local Policy: Examples from the U.S. and the U.K. - Pierre Clavel and Nancy Kleniewski
Part IV. Reflections
9. Beyond the City Limits: A Commentary - Saskia Sassen
10. Theoretical Methods in Comparative Urban Politics - John Walton
About the Contributors
Subject Index
Author Index
About the author
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).
Summary
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.
