David Smith

Third World Cities In Global Perspective

The Political Economy Of Uneven Urbanization

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Produktbeschreibung

In this innovative book, David Smith ultimately links what happens on the ground in the neighborhoods where people live to the larger political and economic forces at work, putting these connections in a historical framework and using a case study approach.The societies of the world's underdeveloped countries are now undergoing an urban revolution that is drastically altering the fabric of their predominantly rural agrarian societies. Smith takes the emerging political economy perspective on urbanization, with its focus on global inequality and dependency, as the context for city growth in the Third World.This perspective allows Smith to critique the conventional ecological view of the city, not by rejecting traditional analyses out of hand, but by reformulating the crucial questions. The conventional ecological perspective assumes an equilibrium model, where very rapid city growth and the various types of urban imbalances are transitional phases on the path to modernity; in contrast, the comparative political economy approach conceptualizes uneven development and inequality as an inevitable result of the expansion of the capitalist world-system.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Februar 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 365g
• ISBN-13: 9780813329987
• ISBN-10: 0813329981
• Artikelnr.: 22041272

Autorenporträt

David A. Smith is professor of sociology at the University of California at Irvine.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Tables and Figures
Preface
Introduction
Urbanization Theory
Developing an International Political Economy Approach
Dominance and Dependency: A Theoretical Reprise
Cities in the World-System: Previous Research
World-System Hierarchy and Vertical Linkages: Beyond Core and Periphery
Summary and a General Model
Global Patterns: A Cross-National Analysis of Urbanization
Measuring Urbanization and World-System Status
Urbanization and the World-System: Results
Conclusion
The Logic of Comparative Historical-Structural Analysis
Sociology Reaches for History
Theoretical Methods for Comparative History
The Logic of Regional and National Case Studies
Organization of the Case Studies
Dependency
Development
and Urbanization in West Africa
West Africa: Uneven Urbanization and Inequality
Politics
Power
and the Form of Urban Growth
Dependent Urbanization in West Africa
Conclusion
Nigerian Urbanization: A Semiperipheral Case?
Indigenous Urbanization: Towns and Trade
Colonial Urbanization and Peripheralization: A Drift Toward Primacy
Lagos and "The Open Economy
" Dependent Urbanization and Incipient Primacy
Indigenous Regional Centers and "Counter-Primacy
" Present and Future: Semiperipheral Urbanization?
Concluding Note on Conjunctural Causation
Urban Diversity in East Asia: Toward a Political Economy Approach
East Asia: Divergent Urban Trajectories
Southeast Asian Cities: The Search for a Theory
Dependent Urbanization in Southeast Asia
Disclaimer
South Korean Urbanization and Semiperipheral Development
Indigenous Urbanization: Cities and Agrarian Kingdoms
Japanese Colonialism: Imperialism and Rational Planning
U.S. Domination and "Dependent Development
" Urbanization in the Late 1980s: Some Unexpected Changes?
Present and Future: Semiperipheral Urbanization
Conclusion
Urbanization in Global Perspective: Summary
Synthesis
and Policy Recommendations
Building Synthetic Urban Theory
Practical Implications
Global Urbanization: A Research Agenda
Notes
References
About the Book and Author
Index