The new economy of the inner city: Restructuring, regeneration, and dislocation in the twenty-first-century metropolis

摘要

In The new economy of the inner city, Thomas Hutton engages the changing economic and social dynamics of the contemporary central city, presenting an incipient theoretical intervention based on a program of field research since 1993. Following Allen Scott, Hutton restates the centrality of industrial production within reindustrialization of the inner city does internalize wider processes of industrial and urban change, but Hutton does not adequately address the metropolitan frame of inquiry or the symbiotic processes co-constituting city-regional space.