Capitalist City [Hardcover]

The world of modern capitalism is a global network both of corporations and of cities - 'world command cities' such as New York, London and Tokyo; 'specialized command cities' which concentrate on particular industries, such as Detroit; 'state command cities' such as Washington and Brasilia; and so on. These cities, linked by an organizational web of transnational corporations, are the pins holding the capitalist world economy together in the new international division of labour.

In The Capitalist City a group of eminent scholars analyzes the intricate relationships among cities, state policies and urban politics at a time of economic restructuring at global, national and local levels to provide an original and timely contribution to one of the most important areas of political and social science.Part 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 ló