The New Economy of the Inner City: Restructuring, Regeneration and Dislocation in the 21st Century Metropolis (Routledge Studies in Economic Geography)
Language: English
Pages: 356
ISBN: 041556932X
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Following the restructuring process which swept away the traditional manufacturing economy of the inner city 25 years ago, new industries are transforming these former post-industrial landscapes. These creative, technology-intensive industries include Internet services, computer graphics and imaging, and video game production. The development dynamics of these new sectors are volatile in comparison with those of the classic ‘Industrial City’. But these new industries highlight the unique role of the inner city in facilitating creative processes, innovation and social change. Further, they reflect the intensity of interaction between the ‘global’ and the ‘local’ in the metropolis, and represent key agencies of urban place-making and re-imaging.
This book addresses the critical intersections between process and place which underpin the formation of creative enterprises in the emergent industrial districts of the ‘new inner city’. It contains intensive case studies of industrial restructuring within exemplary sites in prominent world cities such as London, Singapore, San Francisco and Vancouver. The studies demonstrate the global reach of development and innovation across these cities and sites, marked by clustering, rapid firm turnover, and interdependency between production and consumption activity. The evocative case studies, brought to life by interviews, sequential mapping exercises, media narratives, and photography, also disclose the importance of local factors (including urban scale, built form, property markets and policy) which shape both the specific industrial structures and socio-economic impacts.
The New Economy of the Inner City places inner city new industry formation within the development history of the city, and underscores its role in larger processes of urban transformation. The findings inform a critique and synthesis of urban theory which frame the evolving conditions of the 21st century metropolis. This book would be useful to researchers and students of Geography, Urban Studies, Economics and Planning.
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theoretical and normative terms. Structure of the book: process, place, and case studies Following this introduction, the volume contains eight chapters: two addressing the intersections of ‘process’ and ‘place’, five chapters for the presentation of the case studies, and a concluding chapter which draws out the most salient insights and theoretical significance of the cases. Chapter 2, ‘Process: Geographies of production in the central city’, rehearses the principal interpretations of
Graphic design clusters in Melbourne’s inner city and inner suburbs, 2001. Source: Elliott (2005). Place: the revival of industrial districts 57 Three narratives of the industrial district in Manhattan If the compact spaces of the Oltrarno and Hanoi’s Ancient Quarter disclose signifiers of globalization and restructuring at a modest scale, and if the evolution of the Leipzig (media) and Melbourne (graphic design) clusters exemplify certain aspects of dynamism in the space-economy of the
filtering processes of the new inner city. Narrative no. 2: the corporate complex and the ‘global services economy’ The genesis of New York’s global-scale specializations (and national primacy) in banking and finance can be traced to the emergence of important regional service centres in nineteenth-century America. During the early post-colonial period a number of rivals prospered, including Boston (with its long-established port functions and trading role, notably with England), Philadelphia, and
intimate affiliation with enterprises, entrepreneurs, and workers. The Mayor and GLA also have a more visible profile in creative and knowledge-based industry London’s inner city in the New Economy 139 development than individual boroughs at a strategic level, and central government actors (including the Prime Minister) have been quick to take a measure of credit for London’s emergence as a leading cultural metropolis. The New Economy of the inner city and London’s space-economy The scale and
associations and religious/spiritual institutions and landmarks. Even during sequences of rapid industrial restructuring and enterprise ‘churning’, phenomena identified in the surveys and observations of new industry sites in London presented in the preceding chapter, there are features of continuity as well as transition and succession. The inner city industry site exhibits features of the multi-layered palimpsest for the inscription of new narratives of industrialization. But the 2003 survey