New Money, Nice Town

How Capital Works in the New Urban Economy
1. Auflage 2002
ISBN: 978-0-415-93342-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 238 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 558 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

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

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1.Corporate Power in the New Urban EconomyTraditions of Local Business GovernanceLocal Business Structure and Urban PoliticsThe Research SitesThe New Urban Economy SectorsOrganization of the Work2. Centers of the New Industrial SpaceTraditional Corporate GeographyThe New Industrial SpaceHow Labor Sustains the New Industrial SpaceCompetition and Power at the Center3. Spaces of LifestyleContradictions of the CenterProducing Desirable PlacesQuality of Life as Locational AssetThe Ambiguous Quality-of-Life Discourse4. Building a Site in the New Urban EconomyWorkspaces of the New Urban EconomyRelationships with DevelopersBig Projects, Little SolidarityDevelopment Politics Without Developers5. Doing Local Business in a Global IndustryUsing the Chamber of CommerceFinancing the New Urban EconomyOrganizing from WithinHollowing Out Local Business Institutions6. Corporate Interventions into Local GovernmentHow Business Sets City Hall's AgendaRationales for Political ParticipationThe New Business of Local Politics7. The New Local PhilanthropyA New Era of Corporate Philanthropy?Charity and the Old Boy's NetworkEnvironmentalism as Business InterestHigher Education: The New Chamber of CommerceTrajectories of Business/Nonprofit Alignments8. Rethinking RootlessnessLessons from the New Urban EconomyCorporate Power for the 21st CenturyMethodology AppendixNotes

Über Autor(innen)

Leonard Nevarez is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Vassar College.