Cities in the International Marketplace: The Political Economy of Urban Development in North America and Western Europe
Winner of the 2003 Best Book in Urban Politics Award"This is a major study about western cities in the context of global capitalism and the large demographic shifts of the last thirty years. Through a mix of detailed empirical study and big conceptual questions the authors give us the instruments to capture and detect the ongoing weight of local politics in an exploding international marketplace that has made cities themselves an object for investment."--Saskia Sassen, editor ofGlobal Networks, Linked Cities"An important comparative study of urban development process and politics. . . . . Savitch and Kantor's systematic study offers an array of explanations that are woven together to demonstrate several important concepts about planning policy and urban development."--Robyne S. Turner,Journal of the American Planning Association