{"product_id":"the-informational-city-isbn-9780631179375","title":"The Informational City","description":"The cities and the regions of the world are being transformed under the combined impact of a restructuring of the capitalist system and a technological revolution. This is the thesis of this book, now in paperback. Castells not only brings together an impressive array of evidence to support it but puts forward a new body of theory to explain it. He analyzes the interaction between information technology, economic restructuring and socio-spatial change through the empirical observation of contemporary national, urban and regional processes in the capitalist world, with emphasis on the United States. The author summarizes a very wide range of evidence of urban and regional development, and isolates the causes and consequences of the processes and trends that may be observed.  Acknowledgements. \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. The Informational Mode of Development and the Restructuring of Capitalism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. The New Industrial Space. The Locational Pattern of Information Technology Manufacturing and its effects of Spacial Dynamics.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. The Space Flows. The Use of New Technologies in the Information Economy and the Dialectics between Centralization and Decentralization of Services.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Information Technology, The Restructuring of Capital-Labour Relationships, and the Rise of the Dual City.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. High Technology and the Transition from the Urban Welfare State to the Suburban Warfare State.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. The Internationalization of the Economy, New Technologies, and the Variable Geometry of Spatial Structure.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix to Chapter 2.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003ci\u003e\"The Informational City\u003c\/i\u003e is a major achievement, a real tour-de-force. Although many other social scientists have been groping their way towards an understanding of the new economy and society, Castells has leap-frogged them all to produce the definitive analysis that will surely stand for years to come.\" \u003ci\u003ePeter Hall, Times Higher Education Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Castells provides a careful and closely-argued exposition. This is the book to read to find out ... how the space economy of the United States is being reshaped. Castells describes in compelling detail a burgeoning sphere of communication flows which is transforming organisations, work, and individual lives.\" \u003ci\u003eNigel Thrift, New Statesman and Society\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Informational City\u003c\/i\u003e is one of [Castells] most important works. In it he presents an impressive synthesis drawing on the results of a large number of research studies ... Castells has managed simultaneously to provide the best available summary of the best studies on the new regional industrial structure of the USA, and a set of thought-provoking essays about the deep structure of the information technology revolution and neo-conservative economic policies. The book will be of use to teachers and researchers alike.\" \u003ci\u003eIan Miles, University of Sussex\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This book is provocative and relatively easy to read. The author presents a convincing case for the dawn of an informational age that promises to complicate capitalist social organization.\" \u003ci\u003eGrowth and Change\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eManuel Castells\u003c\/b\u003e has written fourteen books, including \u003ci\u003eThe Economic Crisis and American Society\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe City and the Grassroots,\u003c\/i\u003e winner of the 1983 C. Wright Mills Award. The cities and the regions of the world are being transformed under the combined impact of a restructuring of the capitalist system and a technological revolution. This is the thesis of this book, now in paperback. Castells not only brings together an impressive array of evidence to support it but puts forward a new body of theory to explain it. He analyzes the interaction between information technology, economic restructuring and socio-spatial change through the empirical observation of contemporary national, urban and regional processes in the capitalist world, with emphasis on the United States. The author summarizes a very wide range of evidence of urban and regional development, and isolates the causes and consequences of the processes and trends that may be observed.","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990264398053,"sku":"NP9780631179375","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780631179375.jpg?v=1761787117","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-informational-city-isbn-9780631179375","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}