The New Economy of the Inner City: Restructuring, Regeneration and Dislocation in the 21st Century Metropolis

by Thomas A. Hutton; Centre for H

• ISBN13: 9780415771344
• ISBN10: 041577134X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-04-02
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Following the collapse of traditional manufacturing which shaped the contours of the postindustrial city of the late twentieth century, a new mix of creative, increasingly technology-intensive industries has transformed the economy and landscapes of the inner city. The New Economy of the Inner City provides a lively and theoretically-informed investigation of the significance of new industry formation for a new round of restructuring within the conflictual terrains of the inner city, including implications for the larger metropolis. Part one situates the study within critical discourses of a??industrial urbanisma?? and the foundational concepts of late twentieth century urban change: postindustrialism, post-Fordism, and postmodernism. Part two presents a set of instructive case studies of exemplary cities and sites, situated in London, Singapore, San Francisco and Vancouver, widely acknowledged as trend-setting New Economy centres. The observations from thisstudy imply clear challenges for the foundational concepts of urban transformation, and inform new lines of theoretical conjecture a??beyond the postindustrial citya?? model.

Table of Contents

List of figures	p. vii
List of tables	p. xi
Preface	p. xiii
Acknowledgements	p. xvi
The reassertion of production in the inner city	p. 1
Process: geographies of production in the central city	p. 20
Place: the revival of inner city industrial districts	p. 40
Restructuring narratives in the global metropolis: from postindustrial to 'new industrial' in London	p. 69
London's inner city in the New Economy	p. 102
Inscriptions of restructuring in the developmental state: Telok Ayer, Singapore	p. 142
The New Economy and its dislocations in San Francisco's South of Market Area	p. 178
New industry formation and the transformation of Vancouver's metropolitan core	p. 222
The New Economy of the inner city: an essay in theoretical synthesis	p. 271
Research model and methodology	p. 294
Site slection and fieldwork schedule	p. 300
Notes	p. 303
References	p. 315
Index	p. 327
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