Cities in Contemporary Capitalism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4383000 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stefan Krätke (Economic and Social Geography European University Viadrina Große Scharrnstraße 59 15230 Frankfurt (Oder) Germany, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 1660-1677 |
| Publication date | 2014-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0309-1317 • E-ISSN: 1468-2427 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1468-2427.12165 |
| OpenAlex | W2127257564 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 30 |
| References cited | 30 |
This article outlines essential concepts of the political economy approach of urban research and offers critical modifications and clarifications to some of its contentions concerning the functioning of cities as 'strategic places' of capital accumulation. The interrelations between contemporary capitalism and urban economic development are discussed at the scale of a transnationally extended urban system. Based on the general context of the global economic downturn, I focus on the role of cities in distinct circuits of capital, the switching of capital flows within the urban system and the different functional roles of cities within the world city network that interconnects cities both in the global North and South. I call into question the established focus of urban economic research on the role of cities as financial and service centres, arguing that cities might redirect their economic development trajectories towards 'real economy' activities, in contrast to relying on the disastrous development model of finance-dominated capitalism
Capital accumulation · Capitalism · Economic geography · Economic growth · Economic system · Economics · Economy · Financial capital · Geography · Human capital · Political science · Politics · Recession · Sociology · Urban economics · Urban planning · Global Urban Networks and Dynamics · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Urban Planning and Governance
Demographic Patterns of Reurbanisation and Housing in Metropolitan Regions in the US and Germany
Ny‐lon 2020
Global City‐Region
Urban planning and degrowth
Commercial and industrial land conversion in Germany
Key factors for revitalising heritage buildings through adaptive reuse
Can the straw man speak? An engagement with postcolonial critiques of ‘global cities research’
Circuits of Capital, Ground Rent and the Production of the Built Environment
Developing social-ecological justice through a context-sensitive reuse of urban vacant spaces
Towards an insurgent urbanism
Towards a new epistemology of the urban
Peripheral creativity
World cities under conditions of financialized globalization
Spatial inequality in Tehran, a structural explanation
Mixed-use ideals, market pressures, and the marginalization of crafts in contemporary urban development
Services avancés
Advanced services
Geavanceerde diensten
Sharing the unearned increment
Strangers in a strange land
The role of institutions and markets in shaping intercity investment networks in China
World City-ness in a historical perspective
Cultural political economy and urban heritage tourism
Unpacking the advanced producer services complex in world cities
Privatised urbanism
The Janus-faced genius of cities
Network Analysis of ‘Urban Systems’
Three Globalizations Shaping the Twenty-first Century
The privatization of neighborhood governance and the production of urban space
Manning circuits of value
Capital and land
New Industrial Spaces (Studies in Society and Space, 3)
Global restructuring and territorial development
World City Network
Spaces of Neoliberalism
The Urban Experience
Knowledge Economies
Commodity Chains and Global Capitalism
The Creative Capital of Cities
Capital
The New Imperialism
Construction et déconstruction des identités de genre
Geographies of money and finance III
Land rent, housing and urban planning
Land as a Financial Asset
Global production networks and the analysis of economic development
Collective means of consumption, capital accumulation and the urban question
World City Networks and Global Commodity Chains
The World City Hypothesis
Urban Land Rent and Real Estate Markets in the Process of Social Restructuring
How manufacturing industries connect cities across the world
Global cities in Global Commodity Chains
Economic Geographies of Financialization
City, Class and Power
| Unique citing works | 30 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,5 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2026 (13) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 28 |