My Los Angeles : from urban restructuring to regional urbanization / / Edward W. Soja

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910787604003321
• Autore: Soja Edward W
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley, California : , : University of California Press, , 2014; ©2014
• ISBN: 0-520-95763-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (295 p.)
• Disciplina: 307.1/2160979494
• Soggetti: City planning - California - Los Angeles; Sociology, Urban - California - Los Angeles; Regional planning - California - Los Angeles
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. When It First Came Together in Los Angeles -- 2. Taking Los Angeles Apart -- 3. Inside Exopolis: Views of Orange County -- 4. Comparing Los Angeles -- 5. On the Postmetropolitan Transition -- 6. A Look Beyond Los Angeles -- 7. Regional Urbanization and the End of the Metropolis Era -- 8. Seeking Spatial Justice in Los Angeles -- 9. Occupy Los Angeles: A Very Contemporary Conclusion -- Appendix 1: Source Texts by the Author -- Appendix 2: Complementary Video Sources -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: At once informative and entertaining, inspiring and challenging, My Los Angeles provides a deep understanding of urban development and change over the past forty years in Los Angeles and other city regions of the world. Once the least dense American metropolis, Los Angeles is now the country's densest urbanized area and one of the most culturally heterogeneous cities in the world. Soja takes us through this urban metamorphosis, analyzing urban restructuring, deindustrialization and reindustrialization, the globalization of capital and labor, and the formation of an information-intensive New Economy. By examining his own evolving interpretations of Los Angeles and the debates on the so-called Los Angeles School of urban studies, ; Soja argues that a radical shift is taking place in the nature of the urbanization process, from the familiar metropolitan model to regional urbanization. By looking at such concepts as new regionalism, the spatial turn, the end of the metropolis era, the urbanization of suburbia, the global spread of industrial urbanism, and the transformative urban-industrialization of China, Soja offers a unique and remarkable perspective on critical urban and regional studies.

Chinese capitalism in a global era : towards hybrid capitalism / / Henry Wai-chung Yeung

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910777472403321
• Autore: Yeung Henry Wai-Chung
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2004
• ISBN: 1-134-39049-1; 0-415-30989-1; 1-134-39050-5; 0-203-40046-1; 1-280-05373-9
• Descrizione fisica: xviii, 295 p. : ill., 1 map
• Collana: Routledge advances in international political economy ; ; 12
• Classificazione: 83.25
• Disciplina: 330.12/2/08995105
• Soggetti: Capitalism - China; Chinese - East Asia - Economic conditions; Chinese - Southeast Asia - Economic conditions
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-291) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: chapter 1 Hybrid capitalism -- Demystifying Chinese capitalism -- chapter 2 The dynamics of Chinese capitalism -- Globalization and actor-networks -- chapter Varieties of capitalism and the configurations of Chinese capitalism -- chapter 3 The internationalization of Chinese capitalism -- chapter Conclusion -- chapter 4 Transnational entrepreneurship -- chapter 5 Transformations in social organization -- chapter Actor-networks and international organizations: dismantling ‘crony capitalism’ -- chapter 6 Changing ; corporate governance and strategic management -- chapter 7 The future of Chinese capitalism.