Urban and Regional Economics

by Edel, Matthew

• ISBN13: 9783718651023
• ISBN10: 3718651025
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1992-04-01
• Publisher: Harwood Academic Pub

Summary

The volume reviews the basic tenets of Marxist work on urban and regional development and its uses for the analysis of socioeconomic problems. It discusses the treatment or urban and regional issues by Marx, Engels and other early Marxists and examines recent controversies concerning location and uneven spatial development, rent and urban segregation, urban service delivery, and the roles of the local state and community social movements.

Table of Contents

Introduction to the Series
Introduction	p. 1
The critique of orthodox analysis	p. 1
Basic tenets of Marxist method	p. 7
City and Region in the Marxist Classics	p. 18
City and country	p. 18
Uneven development	p. 24
Uneven penetration of capital	p. 25
City growth as uneven development	p. 26
Value flows as geographical transfers	p. 30
Uneven Development: Recent Treatments	p. 34
General arguments	p. 34
Corporate structure and industrial location	p. 38
Regions and cities in advanced capitalism	p. 43
Regions and cities in less-developed capitalism	p. 51
Non-urban regions	p. 55
Rent Theory and Spatial Segregation	p. 57
Land rent and accumulation: general considerations	p. 58
Marx's categories of rent	p. 62
Urban applications of the rent categories	p. 70
Rent, production and accumulation cycles	p. 75
Rent theory and urban location	p. 80
Urban Services as Social Reproduction	p. 89
Social reproduction in Marx's model	p. 89
The housing question: Engels	p. 94
The housing question: recent treatments	p. 97
Transit and the journey to work	p. 102
Schooling and education	p. 104
Public assistance and social services	p. 106
Health and medical care	p. 108
Recreation and 'cultural affairs'	p. 111
Police and 'criminal justice'	p. 113
Common elements in the analysis of reproductive services	p. 114
The Urban Question, Community and the State	p. 116
The property rights paradigm and the new questions	p. 117
The local State	p. 122
Community and social movements	p. 128
Bibliography	p. 134
Index	p. 151
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