Leonard Nevarez

New Money, Nice Town (eBook, ePUB)

How Capital Works in the New Urban Economy

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 "e;nerdistans,"e; 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 "e;new economy"e; firms in "e;quality of life"e; 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317794868
• Artikelnr.: 40344267

Autorenporträt

Leonard Nevarez is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Vassar College.

Inhaltsangabe

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