Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 223 Seiten)
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ill., maps
ISBN:
9781781009314
Series Statement:
Edward Elgar E-Book Archive
Content:
1. A brief historical geography of capitalism -- 2. On urbanization and urban theory -- 3. Toward a new economy : technology, labor, globalization -- 4. Economic geography and the world system -- 5. Emerging cities of the third wave -- 6. Human capital and the urban hierarchy -- 7. Symbolic analysts and the service underclass -- 8. Social milieu and built form of the city -- 9. Interstitial geographies : the cultural economy of landscape -- 10. Cosmopolis -- 11. Brave new world?
Content:
Beginning with the recent history of capitalism and urbanization and moving into a thorough and complex discussion of the modern city, this book outlines the dynamics of what the author calls the third wave of urbanization, characterized by global capitalism's increasing turn to forms of production revolving around technology-intensive artifacts, financial services, and creative commodities such as film, music, and fashion. The author explores how this shift toward a cognitive and cultural economy has caused dramatic changes in the modern economic landscape in general and in the form and function of world cities in particular. Armed with cutting-edge research and decades of expertise, Allen J. Scott breaks new ground in identifying and explaining how the cities of the past are being reshaped into a complex system of global economic spaces marked by intense relationships of competition and cooperation
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 182-203) and index
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 1781009309
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781781009307
Language:
English
Subjects:
Economics
,
Ethnology
DOI:
10.4337/9781781009314
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