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In this innovative book, David Smith ultimately links what happens on the ground in the neighbourhoods where people live to the larger political and economic forces at work, putting these connections in a historical framework and using a case study approach.
List of contents
List of Tables and Figures, Preface, Introduction, Urbanization Theory, Developing an International Political Economy Approach, Dominance and Dependency: A Theoretical Reprise, Cities in the World-System: Previous Research, World-System Hierarchy and Vertical Linkages: Beyond Core and Periphery, Summary and a General Model, Global Patterns: A Cross-National Analysis of Urbanization, Measuring Urbanization and World-System Status, Urbanization and the World-System: Results, Conclusion, The Logic of Comparative Historical-Structural Analysis, Sociology Reaches for History, Theoretical Methods for Comparative History, The Logic of Regional and National Case Studies, Organization of the Case Studies, Dependency, Development, and Urbanization in West Africa, West Africa: Uneven Urbanization and Inequality, Politics, Power, and the Form of Urban Growth, Dependent Urbanization in West Africa, Conclusion, Nigerian Urbanization: A Semiperipheral Case?, Indigenous Urbanization: Towns and Trade, Colonial Urbanization and Peripheralization: A Drift Toward Primacy, Lagos and "The Open Economy," Dependent Urbanization and Incipient Primacy, Indigenous Regional Centers and "Counter-Primacy," Present and Future: Semiperipheral Urbanization?, Concluding Note on Conjunctural Causation, Urban Diversity in East Asia: Toward a Political Economy Approach, East Asia: Divergent Urban Trajectories, Southeast Asian Cities: The Search for a Theory, Dependent Urbanization in Southeast Asia, Disclaimer, South Korean Urbanization and Semiperipheral Development, Indigenous Urbanization: Cities and Agrarian Kingdoms, Japanese Colonialism: Imperialism and Rational Planning, U.S. Domination and "Dependent Development," Urbanization in the Late 1980s: Some Unexpected Changes?, Present and Future: Semiperipheral Urbanization, Conclusion, Urbanization in Global Perspective: Summary, Synthesis, and Policy Recommendations, Building Synthetic Urban Theory, Practical Implications, Global Urbanization: A Research Agenda, Notes, References, About the Book and Author, Index
About the author
David A. Smith is professor of sociology at the University of California at Irvine.
Summary
In this innovative book, David Smith ultimately links what happens on the ground in the neighbourhoods where people live to the larger political and economic forces at work, putting these connections in a historical framework and using a case study approach.
