Global Finance and Urban Living: A Study of Metropolitan Change

ISBN-13: 9780415031981 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 384 str.

Leslie Budd; Leslie Budd

Opis

The first part of this book builds a framework of analyzing the material consequences of global finance. Chapters are devoted to unravelling the byzantine relationship between deregulated and liberalized international finance and the effect on national economies. This relationship rests on the nature of new financial instruments, how optimal decisions are made about them and the legal and political regulatory regime that has ensued. The second part relates how the complexity of the new financial regime affects, shapes and interacts with communities, lifestyles, architecture and the development and form of urban economies. The book offers an authoritative account of the momentous changes in the organization of finance capital that occurred in the 1980s. But it never contents itself with a mere record of events. The changes in finance are related to changes in urban forms, notably metropolitan lifestyles and aesthetics.

Recenzje

` ... provides valuable insights into how the weird and wonderful workings of the City contribute to shaping London's physical form and determining the quality of urban life. There is a useful message for those who are currently looking to London's future as a dominant global financial centre: don't bank on it.' - Architects' Journal

`Global Finance and Urban Living provides a fascinating glimpse of one of the world's premier centres of capital accumulation. For the growing legions of researchers interested in financial capital, this is a volume to be taken seriously.' - Progress in Human Geography

Spis treści

PART 1: Growth and Dynamics of Financial Markets, 1. London's Financial Markets: Perspectives and Prospects Leonard Stafford 2. London as an International Financial Centre Jerry Coakley 3. Financial Building Blocks in the Context of a Changing National and International Environment Nick Robinson 4. The Private Client Stockbroker Micheal Lenhoff 5. Fraudbusting in London: Developments in the Policing of White Collar Crime Micheal Levi 6. Cultural Contradictions in the Legitimation of Market Practice: Paradox in the Regulation of the City Christopher Stanley 7. Old City and New Times: Economic and Political Aspects of Deregulation Bob Jessop and Rob Stones PART 2: 8. The City as a Landscape of Power: London and New York as Global Financial Capitals Sharon Zukin 9. City Futures Keith Cowlard 10. The Coming of the Groundscrapers Stephanie Williams 11. An Urban Narrative and the Imperatives of the City? Leslie Budd 12. In the Wake of Money: The City of London and the Accumulation of Value Nigel Thrift and Andrew Leyshon 13. Yuppies: A Keyword of the 1980s Sam Whimster 14. Brick Lane: A Village Economy in the Shadow of the City? Chris Rhodes and Nurun Nabi Index

O autorze

Leslie Budd, Sam Whimster