Global finance and urban living : a study of metropolitan change

This incisive inter-disciplinary text provides a major contribution to the study of finance capital and the metropolis. It is the first authoritative account of the momentous changes in the organisation of finance capital that occurred in the 1980s. But it never contents itself with a mere record of events. Changes in finance are scrupulously and consistently related to changes in urban forms, notably metropolitan lifestyles and aesthetics.

Part 1 Growth and Dynamics of Financial Markets

1 London's Financial Markets: Perspectives and ProspectsLeonard Stafford

2 London as an International Financial CentreJerry Coakley

3 Financial Building Blocks in the Context of a Changing National and International EnvironmentNick Robinson

4 The Private Client StockbrokerMicheal Lenhoff

5 Fraudbusting in London: Developments in the Policing of White Collar CrimeMicheal Levi

6 Cultural Contradictions in the Legitimation of Market Practice: Paradox in the Regulation of the CityChristopher Stanley

7 Old City and New Times: Economic and Political Aspects of DeregulationBob Jessop and Rob Stones

Part 2 The City as a Landscape of Power

8 London and New York as Global Financial CapitalsSharon Zukin

9 City FuturesKeith Cowlard

10 The Coming of the GroundscrapersStephanie Williams

11 An Urban Narrative and the Imperatives of the City?Leslie Budd

12 In the Wake of Money: The City of London and the Accumulation of ValueNigel Thrift and Andrew Leyshon

13 Yuppies: A Keyword of the 1980sSam Whimster

14 Brick Lane: A Village Economy in the Shadow of the City?Chris Rhodes and Nurun Nabi Index

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