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EYOND THE CITY LIMITS C pyng Mat BEYOND THE CITY LIMITS CopyrightedMaterial /efJ<JJew p<JJLJ6fJAdo:) Conflicts in Urban and Regional Development, aseries edited by John R. Loganand Todd Swanstrom I -, .~ ~ Edited by John R. Logan and Todd Swanstrom Urban Policy and BEYOND THE Economic Restructuring in CITY LIMITS Comparative Perspective Temple University Press PHILADELPHIA CopyrightedMaterial Temple University Press, Philadelphia 19122 Copyright © 1990 by Temple University. All rights reserved Published 1990 Printed in the United Statesof America The paperused in this publication meets the minimum requirementsof American National Standardfor Information Sciences-Permanence ofPaperfor Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z3948-1984 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Beyond the city limits: urban policyand economicrestructuring in comparative perspective / edited by John R. Logan andTodd Swanstrom. p. em.- (Conflicts in urban and regional development) Inc!udes bibliographical references. ISBN 0-87722-733-0 (alk. paper) I. Urban economics-Congresses. 2. Urban policy-Congresses. 3. Urban renewal-Congresses. I. Logan, John R., 1946- II. Swanstrom, Todd. III. Series. HT32I.B49 1990 307.76-dClo 90-10862 CIP CopyrightedMaterial Dedicated to the memory of LEWIS MUMFORD (I895-I990) CopyrightedMaterial Think globally, act locally CopyrightedMaterial CONTENTS Preface IX PARTI Introduction I Urban Restructuring: ACriticalView 3 John R. Logan andToddSwanstrom PARTII Urban Policy: NationalandInternational Comparisons 2 PoliticalParadoxesofUrbanRestructuring: Globalizationofthe EconomyandLocalizationof Politics? 27 EdmondPreteceille 3 IndustrialRestructuring, StateIntervention, and UnevenDevelopmentin the UnitedStatesand Japan 60 RichardChildHill 4 PoliticalResponses toUrbanRestructuring: TheBritishExperienceunderThatcherism 86 MichaelParkinson CopyrightedMaterial viii CONTENTS PARTIII The Limitsand PossibilitiesofLocalPolicy 5 Economics, Politics, and DevelopmentPolicy: TheConvergenceofNew York and London 119 Susan S. Fainstein 6 Postindustrialism withaDifference: Global Capitalismin World-Class Cities 150 H. V Savitch 7 Urban Deals in Comparative Perspective I75 HarveyMolotch 8 Spacefor Progressive LocalPolicy: Examplesfrom the UnitedStatesand the United Kingdom 199 Pierre Clavel andNancy Kleniewski PARTIV Reflections 9 Beyondthe CityLimits: ACommentary 237 Saskia Sassen 10 TheoreticalMethods in ComparativeUrban Politics 243 fohn Walton About the Contributors 26I SubjectIndex 264 AuthorIndex 27I CopyrightedMaterial PREFACE This book has a complex history, and that history clarifiesitscentraltheme. Inthespringof 1987theeditorshadthe ideafor aconferenceonlocalgrowthpoliticsintheUnitedStates. After a long period of deindustrialization and economic stagna tion, cities in the Northeast were at that point enjoying an eco nomic boom that raised new issues of growth control-housing inflation,gentrification, trafficcongestion, andurbansprawl. Cal ifornia and some Sunbelt cities had struggled with similar issues foryears. Atthesametime, otherSunbeltcities, thosebasedonoil economies, were facing painful issues ofdecline that olderindus trialcitiesofthe Northeasthad longexperiencewith. Webelieved that a conference of urban scholars from different regions would present a chance to learn new policyresponses without having to reinvent the wheel. At the time, we thought an explicitly comparative book on Americanurbanpoliticaleconomywouldbeonthecuttingedgeof scholarship. We soon realized, however, that Restructuring the City, edited by Susan Fainstein and colleagues, had already paved the way in this area, followed by other books edited by Clarence Stone and Woody Sanders, Scott Cummings, and Bob Beauregard. After conversations with a number of contributors to this vol ume, we decided to broaden the comparisons to cities indifferent countries. Notsurprisingly,weagainfoundthatothershadalready beatenus to thepunch: MichaelSmithandJoe Feagin'sbook, The IX CopyrightedMaterial
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