The New Economy Of The Inner City: Restructuring, Regeneration And Dislocation In The Twenty-first Century Metropolis( Series - Routledge Studies In Economic Geography )

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 'industrial urbanism' 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 this study imply clear challenges for the foundational concepts of urban transformation, and inform new lines of theoretical conjecture 'beyond the postindustrial city' model.