Urban Policy Under Capitalism

by Norman Fainstein and Norman I. Fainstein

Urban Policy Under Capitalism breaks with both orthodox Marxism and liberal urban analysis to study urban development as a function of the capitalist mode of production. For them the search for optimal urban policy is ideologically mystifying -- the demands of efficient capital accumulation, of different business interests, and of social welfare clash to produce urban policy. Their work takes a genuinely comparative perspective, researching conditions...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080391797X
• ISBN13: 9780803917972
• Release Date: April 1982
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
• Length: 299 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.