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Author : United States. Patent Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1102 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1938
Category : Patents
ISBN : MSU:31293007077682
Author : Michael Harloe,Elizabeth Lebas
Publisher : Holmes & Meier Pub
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0841907935
Author : Samuel Stein
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781786636386
“This superbly succinct and incisive book couldn’t be more timely or urgent.” —Michael Sorkin, author of All Over the Map Our cities are changing. Around the world, more and more money is being invested in buildings and land. Real estate is now a $217 trillion dollar industry, worth thirty-six times the value of all the gold ever mined. It forms sixty percent of global assets, and one of the most powerful people in the world—the president of the United States—made his name as a landlord and developer. Samuel Stein shows that this explosive transformation of urban life and politics has been driven not only by the tastes of wealthy newcomers, but by the state-driven process of urban planning. Planning agencies provide a unique window into the ways the state uses and is used by capital, and the means by which urban renovations are translated into rising real estate values and rising rents. Capital City explains the role of planners in the real estate state, as well as the remarkable power of planning to reclaim urban life.
Author : Manuel Castells
Publisher : MacMillan
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : UCSC:32106015341404
Author : Michael P. Smith
Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1984-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015006315041
The aim of this volume is to link the study of 'the urban question' to new developments in general social theory. Urban studies, as an interdisciplinary science, must take account of political science, history, sociology, economics, planning, and policy analysis in order to broaden its application. To do this the authors advance the debate on the scope and limit of individual and local action within the structure of advanced urban concentration. They explore the analytical advantages and disadvantages of focusing on the system-level dynamics of economic, political, and social structures. `This excellent anthology brings us up to date on theoretical developments and empirical research within the framework of left urban polit
Author : Morris Zeitlin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038656570
An overview of U.S. cities from the colonial period to the present with useful ideas on how their central problems came about and some ideas to solve them.
Author : Richard L. Florida
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 041594886X
Richard Florida outlines how certain cities succeed in attracting members of the 'creative class' - the key economic growth asset - and argues that, in order to prosper, cities must harness this creative potential.
Author : Anthony D. King
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1996-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0814746799
Classic representations of the city have focused on simplistic urban dichotomies such as renewal or decline, poverty or prosperity, and vice or vigor. We are left with the question of what actually constitutes a city and what makes it and its people succeed or fail. Recent writing on the city, however, has begun to question the images, metaphors, and discourses through which the contemporary city is represented. Discussing recent visual, architectural and spatial transformations in New York and other major world cities in relation to the themes of ethnicity, capital, and culture, Re-Presenting the City moves between interpretive representations of the newly emerging metropolis and the theoretical and methodological questions raised by the task of such representations. Contributors with backgrounds in urban planning, sociology, cultural studies, architecture, art history, geography, and philosophy reflect on the construction of both the real and the unreal city, the images, metaphors and discourses through which the contemporary city is represented, and the texts which both mediate our experience of, as well as contribute to producing, the city of the future.
Author : David Harvey
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781788731010
A major rereading of Marx’s critique of political economy Now a classic of Marxian economics, The Limits to Capital provides one of the best theoretical guides to the history and geography of capitalist development. In this edition, Harvey updates his seminal text with a substantial discussion of the turmoil in world markets today. Delving into concepts such as “fictitious capital” and “uneven geographical development,” Harvey takes the reader step by step through layers of crisis formation, beginning with Marx’s controversial argument concerning the falling rate of profit and closing with a timely foray into the geopolitical and geographical implications of Marx’s work.
Author : David Harvey
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781844679041
"David Harvey...has inspired a generation of radical intellectuals." —Naomi Klein A "forensic and ferocious" manifesto on the city as a center for anti-capitalist resistance from an acclaimed theorist (The Guardian) Long before the Occupy movement, modern cities had already become the central sites of revolutionary politics, where the deeper currents of social and political change rise to the surface. Consequently, cities have been the subject of much utopian thinking. But at the same time they are also the centers of capital accumulation and the frontline for struggles over who controls access to urban resources and who dictates the quality and organization of daily life. Is it the financiers and developers, or the people? Rebel Cities places the city at the heart of both capital and class struggles, looking at locations ranging from Johannesburg to Mumbai, and from New York City to São Paulo. Drawing on the Paris Commune as well as Occupy Wall Street and the London Riots, Harvey asks how cities might be reorganized in more socially just and ecologically sane ways—and how they can become the focus for anti-capitalist resistance.
Author : Gregory D. Squires,Professor of Sociology Public Policy and Public Administration Gregory D Squires
Publisher : Suny Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0791419878
Capital and Communities in Black and White explores the problems created by global economic restructuring, the decline of inner city neighborhoods, and the heightened racial conflicts in the United States.
Author : Stefan Krätke
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781444336221
This book challenges the new urban growth concepts of the creative class and creative industries from a critical urban theory perspective. Critiques Richard Florida's popular books about cities and the creative class Presents an alternative approach based on analyses of empirical research data concerning the German urban system and the case study regions, Hanover and Berlin Underscores that the culture industry takes a leading role in conforming with neoliberal conceptions of labor markets
Author : Thomas Piketty
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 817 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780674979857
What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions about the long-term evolution of inequality, the concentration of wealth, and the prospects for economic growth lie at the heart of political economy. But satisfactory answers have been hard to find for lack of adequate data and clear guiding theories. In this work the author analyzes a unique collection of data from twenty countries, ranging as far back as the eighteenth century, to uncover key economic and social patterns. His findings transform debate and set the agenda for the next generation of thought about wealth and inequality. He shows that modern economic growth and the diffusion of knowledge have allowed us to avoid inequalities on the apocalyptic scale predicted by Karl Marx. But we have not modified the deep structures of capital and inequality as much as we thought in the optimistic decades following World War II. The main driver of inequality--the tendency of returns on capital to exceed the rate of economic growth--today threatens to generate extreme inequalities that stir discontent and undermine democratic values if political action is not taken. But economic trends are not acts of God. Political action has curbed dangerous inequalities in the past, the author says, and may do so again. This original work reorients our understanding of economic history and confronts us with sobering lessons for today.
Author : Geoffrey K. Ingham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Corporations
ISBN : UCSC:32106007023549
Author : Jonathan Nitzan,Shimshon Bichler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 853 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134022298
Conventional theories of capitalism are mired in a deep crisis: after centuries of debate, they are still unable to tell us what capital is. Liberals and Marxists both think of capital as an ‘economic’ entity that they count in universal units of ‘utils’ or ‘abstract labour’, respectively. But these units are totally fictitious. Nobody has ever been able to observe or measure them, and for a good reason: they don’t exist. Since liberalism and Marxism depend on these non-existing units, their theories hang in suspension. They cannot explain the process that matters most – the accumulation of capital. This book offers a radical alternative. According to the authors, capital is not a narrow economic entity, but a symbolic quantification of power. It has little to do with utility or abstract labour, and it extends far beyond machines and production lines. Capital, the authors claim, represents the organized power of dominant capital groups to reshape – or creorder – their society. Written in simple language, accessible to lay readers and experts alike, the book develops a novel political economy. It takes the reader through the history, assumptions and limitations of mainstream economics and its associated theories of politics. It examines the evolution of Marxist thinking on accumulation and the state. And it articulates an innovative theory of ‘capital as power’ and a new history of the ‘capitalist mode of power’.