基本説明
Looks at how the 'new economy' led by service and high-tech firms is reshaping both urban politics and the nature of corporate power in contemporary America.
Full Description
The economic restructuring that has gone on since the 1980s has produced a new economic space in which service and high tech firms are at the forefront of innovation. One of the features of the new economy is what pop geographer Joel Kotkin calls "nerdistans," or smaller cities with a substantial high tech sector, limits on growth, environmentally friendly policies and a generally well-educated population. In New Money, Nice Town, Leonard Nevarez takes a close look at how "new economy" firms in "quality of life" cities interact with local political structures, finding that they are both more liberal and more detached than their traditional counterparts. This new global economy has created communities whose politics are more democratic, but also more tenuous and unstable.
Contents
1. Corporate power in the new urban economy 2. Centers of new industrial space 3. Spaces of lifestyle 4. Building a site in the new urban economy 5. Doing local business in a global industry 6. Corporate interventions into local government 7. The new local philanthropy 8. Rethinking rootlessness
