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Book SynopsisThe world of modern capitalism is a global network both of corporations and of cities -- a world command citiesa such as New York, London and Tokyo; a specialized command citiesa which concentrate on particular industries, such as Detroit; a state command citiesa such as Washington and Brasilia; and so on.
Table of ContentsPart I Introduction
1 Cities and the New International Division of Labor: An Overview 3
Part II Theoretical Perspectives: The Global Economy, the State and the City
2 World-System Theory and the Study of Comparative Urbanization 37
3 Cities and the International Division of Labor 66
4 Urban Theory Reconsidered: Production, Reproduction and Collective Action 87
Part III Economic Restructuring in Cities: A Global Perspective
5 The Politics of Dependency in Deindustrializing America: The Case of Buffalo, New York 113
6 Growth and Informalization at the Core: A Preliminary Report on New York City 138
7 Detroit and Houston: Two Cities in Global Perspective 155
8 Economic Restructuring and the Internationalization of the Los Angeles Region 178
9 Lima and the New International Division of Labor 199
Part IV State Responses to Global Restructuring
10 The State, Capital and Urban Change in Britain 215
11 Plant Closures in Socialist France 237
12 Urbanization, the Informal Economy and State Policy in Latin America 252
Part V Local Responses to Global Restructuring: Community, Household and Urban Politics
13 Community and Corporations in the Restructuring of Industry 275
14 Urban Survival Strategies, Family Structure and Informal Practices 297
15 Local Mobilization and Economic Discontent 323
16 Restructuring and Popular Opposition in West German Cities 343
17 Urban Protest and the Global Political Economy: The IMF Riots 364
List of Contributors 387
Index 389
