The constitution of the city : economy, society, and urbanization in the capitalist era /
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| Language: | English |
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Cham, Switzerland :
Palgrave Macmillan,
[2017]
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Table of Contents:
- Preface; Contents; List of Figures ; List of Tables ; Chapter 1: City and Society; Prologue; Waves of Capitalist Urbanization; The First Wave; The Second Wave; The Third Wave; Specificities and Generalities of Urbanization; Notes; Chapter 2: In Search of the City; What Is the City?; Definitional Dilemmas; Theoretical Entanglements; Toward a Reconsideration; The Origins of Urbanization; The Earliest Cities; The Division of Labor and the Growth of Cities; Analytical Reprise; The Urban Land Nexus; The Spatial Organization of the City; Rent and Land Use; The Public City
- Externalities, the Commons and Collective ConsumptionInstitutions of Governance; The City in Focus; Notes; Chapter 3: Industrialization and Urbanization in Early Capitalism; Preliminary Observations; Industrialization and Urbanization; The Driving Force of Capitalism; Industrial Organization and Location; Urban Outcomes; Industrial Agglomerations in the Nineteenth Century; The Location of Cities; Intraurban Patterns; Urban Social Conditions and the Imperative of Planning; Prophets of Doom and Redemption; A Synoptic View; Notes
- Chapter 4: Triumph and Tribulations of the Mass-Production MetropolisEmergence of Mass Production and the Twentieth-Century Metropolis; The Mass-Production System; Mass Production and Urbanization; Early Theories of Metropolis; The Long Post-War Boom; The Core Countries; The World Periphery; Crisis and Readjustment; The Climacteric; Turning Points: Theoretical and Substantive; Notes; Chapter 5: Cities in a Globalizing World; Internal and External Relations of the City; The Urban Continuum; The Geography of Urban Growth and Development; The Global Multiplex; Point Counterpoint; Notes
- Chapter 6: The Third WaveConceptual Preliminaries; From Late Capitalism to Post-Fordism; The Collapsing Second Wave; The Post-Fordist Moment; Toward Cognitive-Cultural Capitalism; Digitization Takes Command25; Human Capital Issues; A Prospective View; Divisions of Cognitive and Cultural Labor; Equal Partners?; Notes; Chapter 7: Mainsprings of Resurgence; The Flexible City; Linkages and Labor Markets; The Creative Field of the City; Specialization and Competition; Chamberlinian Competition; Global Connections; Radiant Cities?; The Creative City; Labor Mobility, Skills, and Urban Growth
- NotesChapter 8: Social Differentiation and Forms of Life; The Stratification of Urban Society; The Widening Divide; Occupational Structures and Social Differentiation; Human Capital Variations; Demographic Divisions; The Immigrant Connection; Race, Ethnicity, Gender; Identity Versus the Melting Pot; Precariousness, Poverty, and Informality; The Urban Slum; Informality and Marginalization in Developing Countries; Theoretical Coda; Appendix; Composition of Main Occupational Categories Used in the Analysis; Notes; Chapter 9: Through the Kaleidoscope; Introduction; The Urban Community
- Crosscurrents: Accessibility and Neighborhood