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The social control of cities? : a comparative perspective

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In the past three decades there have been dramatic changes in the fortunes
of cities and regions, in beliefs about the role of markets and states in
society, and in the theories used by social scientists to account for these
changes. Many of the cities experiencing crisis in the 1970s have undergone
revitalization, while others have continued to decline. In Europe and
North America new policies have introduced privatization on a broad scale
at the expense of collective consumption, and the viability of the welfare
state has been challenged. Eastern Europe has witnessed the collapse of
state socialism and the uneven implementation of a globally driven market
economy. Meanwhile, the less developed nations have suffered punishing
austerity programs that divide a few newly industrializing countries from
a great many cases of arrested and negative growth.

Social science theories have struggled to encompass these changes. The
earlier social organizational and ecological paradigms were criticized by
Marxian and Weberian theories, and these in turn have been disputed as
all-embracing narratives. The certainties of the past, such as class theory,
are gone and the future of urban and regional studies appears relatively
open.

The aim of the series Studies in Urban and Social Change is to take forward
this agenda of issues and theoretical debates. The series is committed to a
number of aims but will not prejudge the development of the field. It
encourages theoretical works and research monographs on cities and
regions. It explores the spatial dimension of society, including the role of
agency and of institutional contexts in shaping urban form. It addresses
economic and political change from the household to the state. Cities and
regions are understood within an international system, the features of
which are revealed in comparative and historical analyses.

The series also serves the interests of university classroom and professional
readers. It publishes topical accounts of important policy issues (e.g.
global adjustment), reviews of debates (e.g. post-Fordism), and collections
that explore various facets of major changes (e.g. cities after socialism or
the new urban underclass). The series urges a synthesis of research and
theory, teaching and practice. Engaging research monographs (e.g. on
women and poverty in Mexico or urban culture in Japan) provide vivid
teaching materials just as policy-oriented studies (e.g. of social housing or
urban planning) test and redirect theory. The city is analysed from the top
down (e.g. through the gendered culture of investment banks) and the
bottom up (e.g. in challenging social movements). Taken together, the
volumes in the series reflect the latest developments in urban and regional
studies.

Subjects which fall within the scope of the series include: explanations
for the rise and fall of cities and regions; economic restructuring and its
spatial, class, and gender impact; race and identity; convergence and divergence
of the “east” and “west” in social and institutional paterns; new divisions
of labour and forms of social exclusion; urban and environmental
movements; international migration and capital flows; politics of the urban
poor in developing countries; cross-national comparisons on housing, planning,
and development; debates on post-Fordism, the consumption sector,
and the “new” urban poverty.

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Penerbit

Oxford : Blackwell Publishers Ltd., 2000

Deskripsi Fisik

HT321 .B65 - 307.76 21 – dc21

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

0-631-20521-7

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PERUBAHAN SOSIAL
STUDI PERKOTAAN

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