Capitalist CityISBN: 978-0-631-15182-1
Hardcover
400 pages
October 1997, Wiley-Blackwell
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The world of modern capitalism is a global network both of
corporations and of cities - 'world command cities' such as New
York, London and Tokyo; 'specialized command cities' which
concentrate on particular industries, such as Detroit; 'state
command cities' such as Washington and Brasilia; and so on. These
cities, linked by an organizational web of transnational
corporations, are the pins holding the capitalist world economy
together in the new international division of labour.
In The Capitalist City a group of eminent scholars analyzes the intricate relationships among cities, state policies and urban politics at a time of economic restructuring at global, national and local levels to provide an original and timely contribution to one of the most important areas of political and social science.