LEADER 04025oam 2200697I 450 001 9910808080703321 005 20240402034151.0 010 $a0-415-93343-9 010 $a1-317-79486-9 010 $a1-315-81121-9 010 $a1-317-79487-7 024 7 $a10.4324/9781315811215 035 $a(CKB)2550000001186143 035 $a(EBL)1596499 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001164677 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11768106 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001164677 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11182807 035 $a(PQKB)11694740 035 $a(OCoLC)874151322 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1596499 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1596499 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10828531 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL565514 035 $a(OCoLC)868489750 035 $a(OCoLC)897459204 035 $a(FINmELB)ELB137309 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001186143 100 $a20180331e20132003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aNew money, nice town $ehow capital works in the new urban economy /$fLeonard Nevarez 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aLondon ;$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (239 p.) 300 $aFirst published 2003 by Routledge. 311 $a0-415-93342-0 311 $a1-306-34263-5 327 $aCover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Corporate Power in the New Urban Economy; Traditions of Local Business Governance; Local Business Structure and Urban Politics; Is there a New Economy?; The Research Sites; The New Urban Economy Sectors; Organization of the Work; 2 Centers of the New Industrial Space; Traditional Corporate Geography; The New Industrial Space; How Labor Sustains the New Industrial Space; Competition and Power at the Center; 3 Spaces of Lifestyle; Contradictions of the Center; Producing Desirable Places 327 $aQuality of Life as Locational AssetThe Ambiguous Quality-of-Life Discourse; 4 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; 5 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; 6 Corporate Interventions into Local Government; How Business Sets City Hall's Agenda; Rationales for Political Participation; The New Business of Local Politics 327 $a7 The New Local PhilanthropyA 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; 8 Rethinking Rootlessness; Lessons from the New Urban Economy; Corporate Power for the Twenty-First Century; Methodology Appendix; Notes; Index 330 $aThe economic restructuring that has gone on since the 1980s has produced a new economic space in which service and high tech firms are at the forefront of innovation. One of the features of the new economy is what pop geographer Joel Kotkin calls ""nerdistans,"" or smaller cities with a substantial high tech sector, limits on growth, environmentally friendly policies and a generally well-educated population. In New Money, Nice Town, Leonard Nevarez takes a close look at how ""new economy"" firms in ""quality of life"" cities interact with local political structures, finding that they are both 606 $aUrban economics 606 $aBusiness and politics 615 0$aUrban economics. 615 0$aBusiness and politics. 676 $a330.9173/2 676 $a330.91732 686 $a83.64$2bcl 686 $a71.14$2bcl 700 $aNevarez$b Leonard.$0479567 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910808080703321 996 $aNew money, nice town$94013035 997 $aUNINA