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Author Nevarez, Leonard.

Title New money, nice town : how capital works in the new urban economy / Leonard Nevarez.

Publication Info. New York : Routledge, 2003.

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 224 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-214) and index.
Contents Corporate Power in the New Urban Economy -- Traditions of Local Business Governance -- Local Business Structure and Urban Politics -- Is there a New Economy? -- Research Sites -- New Urban Economy Sectors -- Organization of the Work -- Centers of the New Industrial Space -- Traditional Corporate Geography -- New Industrial Space -- How Labor Sustains the New Industrial Space -- Competition and Power at the Center -- Spaces of Lifestyle -- Contradictions of the Center -- Producing Desirable Places -- Quality of Life as Locational Asset -- Ambiguous Quality-of-Life Discourse -- Building a Site in the New Urban Economy -- Workspaces of the New Urban Economy -- Relationships with Developers -- Big Projects, Little Solidarity -- Development Politics Without Developers -- Doing Local Business in a Global Industry -- Using the Chamber of Commerce -- Financing the New Urban Economy -- Organizing from Within -- Hollowing Out Local Business Institutions -- Corporate Interventions into Local Government -- How Business Sets City Hall's Agenda -- Rationales for Political Participation -- New Business of Local Politics -- New Local Philanthropy -- A New Era of Corporate Philanthropy? -- Charity and the Old Boys' Network -- Environmentalism as Business Interest -- Higher Education: The New Chamber of Commerce -- Trajectories of Business/Nonprofit Alignments -- Rethinking Rootlessness -- Lessons from the New Urban Economy -- Corporate Power for the Twenty-First Century.
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Subject Urban economics.
Urban economics.
Business and politics.
Business and politics.
United States -- Economic conditions -- 20th century.
United States -- Economic conditions -- 21st century.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Nevarez, Leonard. New money, nice town 0415933420 (DLC) 2002021348 (OCoLC)49529933
ISBN 9781317794868 (electronic book)
1317794869 (electronic book)
0415933420
9780415933421
0415933439
9780415933438