Urbanization and Urban Planning in Capitalist Society

Originally published in 1981, Urbanization and Urban Planning in Capitalist Society, is a comprehensive collection of papers addressing urban crises. Through a synthesis of current discussions around various critical approaches to the urban question, the book defines a general theory of urbanization and urban planning in capitalist society. It examines the conceptual preliminaries necessary for the establishment of capitalist theory and provides a theoretical exposition of the fundamental logic of urbanization and urban planning. It also provides a detailed discussion of commodity production and its effects on urban development.

Michael Dear, Allen Scott

Preface Part I: The Urban Question 1. Towards a Framework for Analysis Part II: Prolegomena to a Theory of Urbanization and Planning 2. Capitalism, Accumulation and the Explanation of Urban Phenomena 3. The State in Capitalism and the Capitalist State 4. Some Reflexions on Epistemology, Design and Planning Theory Part III: Urbanization and Planning in Capitalist Society 5. The Urban Process Under Capitalism: A Framework for Analysis 6. The Urban Land Question 7. Urban Planning in Early and Late Capitalistic Societies: Outline of a Theoretical Perspectives 8. Notes on Comparative Urban Research Part IV: Commodity Production and Urban Development 9. The UK Electrical Engineering and Electronics Industries: The Implications of the Crisis for the Restructuring of Capital and Locational Change 10. Policies as Chameleons: An Interpretation of Regional Policy and Office Policy in Britain 11. The Property Sector in the Late Capitalism: The Case of Britain 12. The New International Division of Labour, Multinational Corporations and Urban Hierarchy Part V: Reproduction and the Dynamics of Urban Life 13. Community and Accumulation 14. Accumulation Versus Reproduction in the Inner City: The Recurrent Crisis of London Revisited 15. A Theory of Suburbanization: Capitalism and the Construction of Urban Space in the United States 16. Capitalism and Conflict Around the Communal Living Space 17. Homeownership and the Capitalist Social Order 18. Social and Spatial Reproduction of the Mentality Ill Part VI: Urbanization and the Political Sphere 19. The Analysis of State Intervention in the Nineteenth-Century Cities: The Case of Municipal Labour Policy in East London 1886-1914 20. Amnesia, Integration and Repression: The Roots of Canadian Urban Political Culture 22. The Apparatus of the State, the Reproduction of Capital and Urban Conflicts Author Index Subject Index