New Money, Nice Town

1. Auflage 2002
ISBN: 978-0-415-93343-8
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 232 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 217 mm, Gewicht: 390 g

The economic restructuring that has gone on since the 1980s has produced a new economic space in which service and high tech firms are at the forefront of innovation. One of the features of the new economy is what pop geographer Joel Kotkin calls "nerdistans," or smaller cities with a substantial high tech sector, limits on growth, environmentally friendly policies and a generally well-educated population. In New Money, Nice Town, Leonard Nevarez takes a close look at how "new economy" firms in "quality of life" cities interact with local political structures, finding that they are both more liberal and more detached than their traditional counterparts. This new global economy has created communities whose politics are more democratic, but also more tenuous and unstable.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nevarez, Leonard

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Wirtschaftstheorie, Wirtschaftsphilosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regional- & Raumplanung Stadtplanung, Kommunale Planung
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Dienstleistungssektor & Branchen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PREFACE
1.Corporate Power in the New Urban Economy
Traditions of Local Business Governance
Local Business Structure and Urban Politics
The Research Sites
The New Urban Economy Sectors
Organization of the Work
2. Centers of the New Industrial Space
Traditional Corporate Geography
The New Industrial Space
How Labor Sustains the New Industrial Space
Competition and Power at the Center
3. Spaces of Lifestyle
Contradictions of the Center
Producing Desirable Places
Quality of Life as Locational Asset
The Ambiguous Quality-of-Life Discourse
4. Building a Site in the New Urban Economy
Workspaces of the New Urban Economy
Relationships with Developers
Big Projects, Little Solidarity
Development Politics Without Developers
5. Doing Local Business in a Global Industry
Using the Chamber of Commerce
Financing the New Urban Economy
Organizing from Within
Hollowing Out Local Business Institutions
6. Corporate Interventions into Local Government
How Business Sets City Hall's Agenda
Rationales for Political Participation
The New Business of Local Politics
7. The New Local Philanthropy
A New Era of Corporate Philanthropy?
Charity and the Old Boy's Network
Environmentalism as Business Interest
Higher Education: The New Chamber of Commerce
Trajectories of Business/Nonprofit Alignments
8. Rethinking Rootlessness
Lessons from the New Urban Economy
Corporate Power for the 21st Century
Methodology Appendix
Notes

Über Autor(innen)

Leonard Nevarez is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Vassar College.