[...]... understanding of the essential mainsprings of the urban process at the beginning of the twenty-first century While the achievement of any such understanding obviously requires the work of many hands, the present exercise is a modest attempt to push the discussion forward by means of an inquiry into the general structure and dynamics of intra-urban space and its concrete forms of expression at the present... to the Los Angeles riots of 1992, as well as to the disturbances that broke out in the immigrant quarters of the Paris suburbs in the latter part of 2005 and that then spilled over into other parts of the metropolitan area The paradox of the resurgent city is the escalating contrast between its surface glitter and its underlying squalor 18 2 Inside the City Urbanization and the Urban Question In the. .. blank Contents List of Illustrations List of Tables 1 The Resurgent City xii xiii 1 2 Inside the City 19 3 Production and Work in the American Metropolis 41 4 The Cognitive-Cultural Economy and the Creative City 64 5 Culture, Economy, and the City 84 6 Chiaroscuro: Social and Political Components of the Urban Process 110 7 City-Regions: Economic Motors and Political Actors on the Global Stage 130 8... while the periphery evolves as a vast repository of standardized blue-collar work None of these different claims stands up very well in confrontation with the specifics of urbanization and globalization over the last couple of decades, not so much because they tended to overestimate the nature of exploitation in capitalism, but rather because they failed radically (understandably enough in view of their... the western US–Canadian borderlands Life and Politics in the Resurgent City It is clear that the resurgent city of the contemporary era presents several radical points of contrast with the fordist industrial metropolis of the mid-twentieth century These contrasts are manifest in both the economic bases of these two categories of city and in their general social structure Moreover, while each type of. .. Belgium, southern Holland, and the Ruhr, with outliers in northwest Italy and southern Sweden The core regions of the mass-production economy expanded rapidly over the middle decades of the twentieth century, and they developed apace as new investments were ploughed into productive use and as streams of migrants converged upon the main metropolitan areas Notwithstanding persistent decentralization of routinized... and judgment and/ or cultural sensitivity on the part of employees (McDowell, Batnitzky, and Dyer 2007) The cognitive-cultural economy, then, is marked by the increasingly flexible and malleable systems of production (with their evervarying palette of goods and services) that are now so strongly present at the leading edges of the contemporary economy As it happens, the cognitive-cultural economy is also... to maintain the physical and social capacities of the labor force, especially in periods of prolonged unemployment The 9 The Resurgent City scene was now set for the long post-War boom over the 1950s and 1960s, and for the climactic period of growth of the large cities that functioned as the hubs of the mass-production economy This policy system was supervised and controlled by central governments,... relations of competition and collaboration; and those that have emerged or are emerging as leaders in the cognitive-cultural economy function to ever greater and greater degree as the cynosures par excellence of the contemporary global system In the context of these developments, the resurgent cities and cityregions of today’s world are evidently beginning to acquire a degree of economic and political... supplanted much of the mass-production apparatus as the main foci of growth and innovation in the leading centers of world capitalism where they constitute the main sectoral foundations of what I referred to above as a new cognitive-cultural economy On the occupational side, this phenomenon has been accompanied by the formation of a thick stratum of high-wage professional and quasi-professional workers . John. Social economy of the metropolis: cognitive-cultural capitalism and the global resurgence of cities / Allen J. Scott. p. cm. ISBN 978–0–19–954930–6 1. Sociology, Urban. 2. Cities and towns—Growth emphasis on the idea of the social economy of the metropolis, which is to say, a view of the urban organism as an intertwined system of social and economic life played out through the arena of geographic space. I. alt="" Social Economy of the Metropolis The world [is] a progressively realized community of inter- pretation” Josiah Royce (1913: 394) Social Economy of the Metropolis Cognitive-Cultural Capitalism and