出现的世界

这本创新的书深入分析了21世纪新形式的资本主义影响和改变城市化进程的许多方式。

Beginning with the recent history of capitalism and urbanization and moving into a thorough and complex discussion of the modern city, this book outlines the dynamics of what the author calls the third wave of urbanization, characterized by global capitalism’s increasing turn to forms of production revolving around technology-intensive artifacts, financial services, and creative commodities such as film, music, and fashion. The author explores how this shift toward a cognitive and cultural economy has caused dramatic changes in the modern economic landscape in general and in the form and function of world cities in particular. Armed with cutting-edge research and decades of expertise, Allen J. Scott breaks new ground in identifying and explaining how the cities of the past are being reshaped into a complex system of global economic spaces marked by intense relationships of competition and cooperation.

地理、城市规划、社会学和经济学等领域的教授和学生，以及新闻记者、政策制定者和其他对城市研究感兴趣的专业人士，都将在这本开创性的书中发现许多值得钦佩的地方。