The Informational City

Manuel Castells has written fourteen books, including The Economic Crisis and American Society and The City and the Grassroots, winner of the 1983 C. Wright Mills Award.

Acknowledgements. Introduction.

1. The Informational Mode of Development and the Restructuring of Capitalism.

2. The New Industrial Space. The Locational Pattern of Information Technology Manufacturing and its effects of Spacial Dynamics.

3. The Space Flows. The Use of New Technologies in the Information Economy and the Dialectics between Centralization and Decentralization of Services.

4. Information Technology, The Restructuring of Capital-Labour Relationships, and the Rise of the Dual City.

5. High Technology and the Transition from the Urban Welfare State to the Suburban Warfare State.

6. The Internationalization of the Economy, New Technologies, and the Variable Geometry of Spatial Structure.

Conclusion.

Appendix to Chapter 2.

Index.