Cities, Enterprises and Society on the Eve of the 21st Century

This collection of essays provides a review and restatement of concepts and analytical insights about the relations between the dynamics of the production system and urban society. A number of questions underline the arrangement of the book, and constitute the central debates in the individual chapters. These questions include: how have large cities and city systems developed in the context of economic globalization and the restructuring processes of the international economy?; what are the restructuring strategies of firms within the urban economy?; how have social and political harmonization and polarization in urban society been affected by entrepreneurial strategies?; and what has been the response of other urban participants, and in particular local authorities to economic restructuring?

ISBN 1855674041   DEWEY edition DC21 ISBN13 9781855674042 (What's this?)   Pages 304 Publisher Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.   Volumes 1 Imprint Frances Pinter Publishers Ltd   Weight (grammes) 620 Format Paperback   Published in London Publication date 24 Apr 1997   Height (mm) 234 Library of Congress HT321.C54   Width (mm) 153 DEWEY 306.3091732   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly

		List of contributors
		Preface
		Abstracts
1		Globalization, economic restructuring and urban society by Frank Moulaert and Allen J. Scott		3
2		Economic globalization and urban dynamics - I by Arie Shachar		18
3		Economic globalization and urban dynamics - II by William F. Lever		33
4		From territorial production systems to metropolitanization: ten years of research in France by Nicole May		57
5		The dynamics of production systems, territories and cities by Pierre Veltz		78
6		Producer services and the formation or urban space by Frank Moulaert and Allen J. Scott and Helene Farcy		97
7		Enterprises and urban space in France since the Industrial Revolution by Louis Bergeron		113
8		New employment regimes in cities by Saskia Sassen		129
9		Urban poverty and social exclusion: concepts and debates by Yuri Kazepov and Francesca Zajczyk		151
10		Socio-economic restructuring and urban poverty under different welfare regimes by David Benassi and Yuri Kazepov and Enzo Mingione		174
11		Urban economic restructuring and public policy by Edmond Preteceille		219
12		Public action, local democracy and the challenge of economic globalization by Michel Autes		229
13		Urban restructuring and local response by Patricia A. Wilson and Frank Moulaert and Christophe Demaziere		244
14		The urban question and the future of urban research by Allen J. Scott and Frank Moulaert		267
		Name index		279
		Index of cities and regions		283
		Subject index		284

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