Cities Enterprise and SocietyFrank Moulaert, Allen John Scott 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? |
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Globalization economic restructuring and urban society | 3 |
Economic globalization and urban dynamics I | 18 |
WILLIAM F LEVER | 33 |
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