Beyond the City Limits: Urban Policy and Economic Restructuring in Comparative Perspective.

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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