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The Cities And The Regions Of The World Are Being Transformed Under The Combined Impact Of A Restructuring Of The Capitalist System And A Technological Revolution. This Is The Thesis Of This Book, Now In Paperback. Castells Not Only Brings Together An Impressive Array Of Evidence To Support It But Puts Forward A New Body Of Theory To Explain It. He Analyzes The Interaction Between Information Technology, Economic Restructuring And Socio-spatial Change Through The Empirical Observation Of Contemporary National, Urban And Regional Processes In The Capitalist World, With Emphasis On The United States. The Author Summarizes A Very Wide Range Of Evidence Of Urban And Regional Development, And Isolates The Causes And Consequences Of The Processes And Trends That May Be Observed.--publisher Description. 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. Informati

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Author

Manuel Castells

Publisher

Blackwell Publishing Limited

Published

1992

Language

EN

ISBN

9780631159889

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Economics, Science, Technology