A World in Emergence

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Geography; Social Policy and Sociology; Urban and Regional Studies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: R0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
ISBN: 9781781009307
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 A brief historical geography of capitalism , pp 1-14: .
Ch 2 On urbanization and urban theory , pp 15-31: .
Ch 3 Toward a new economy: technology, labor, globalization , pp 32-46: .
Ch 4 Economic geography and the world system , pp 47-63: .
Ch 5 Emerging cities of the third wave , pp 64-78: .
Ch 6 Human capital and the urban hierarchy , pp 79-94: .
Ch 7 Symbolic analysts and the service underclass , pp 95-121: .
Ch 8 Social milieu and built form of the city , pp 122-144: .
Ch 9 Interstitial geographies: the cultural economy of landscape , pp 145-160: .
Ch 10 Cosmopolis , pp 161-174: .
Ch 11 Brave new world? , pp 175-181: .

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