Table of Contents
Preface
Part I: Introduction
1. Urban Restructuring: A Critical View – John R. Logan and Todd Swanstrom
Part II. Urban Policy: National and International Comparisons
2. Political Paradoxes of Urban Restructuring: Globalization of the Economy and Localization of Politics? – Edmond Preteceille
3. Industrial Restructuring, State Intervention, and Uneven Development in the United States and Japan – Richard C. Hill
4. Political Responses to Urban Restructuring: The British Experience under Thatcherism – Michael Parkinson
Part III. The Limits and Possibilities of Local Policy
5. Economics, Politics, and Development Policy: The Convergence of New York and London – Susan Fainstein
6. Postindustrialism with a Difference: Global Capitalism in World Class Cities – H. V. Savitch
7. Urban Deals in Comparative Perspective – Harvey L. Molotch
8. Space for Progressive Local Policy: Examples from the U.S. and the U.K. – Pierre Clavel and Nancy Kleniewski
Part IV. Reflections
9. Beyond the City Limits: A Commentary – Saskia Sassen
10. Theoretical Methods in Comparative Urban Politics – John Walton
About the Contributors
Subject Index
Author Index