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The concept of industrial and socio-spatial restructuring is on the agenda of the ‘new’ urban analysis with a vengeance. This academic flowering is ironic from the perspective of the US because processes underlying change have been at work in that country for more than 30 years. While not using the currently fashionable terms of neo-Marxists and post-structuralists, mainstream analysts of social change in the US have been charting the patterns of restructuring for some time. In fact, studies of this kind are the bread and butter of regional analysts, urban economists and ecologists. Well established in the literature are proximate explanations for fundamental change that have only been repeated by the new discourse on restructuring including: the deindustrialisation of manufacturing; the rise of service related industries; the regional dispersal of industry, retailing and finance from the central city; technological change and its impact on both business and space; and regional shifts in prosperity and depression, such as the north-south or the sunbelt-frostbelt distinctions.
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Gottdiener, M. (1989). Crisis Theory and Socio-Spatial Restructuring: the US Case. In: Gottdiener, M., Komninos, N. (eds) Capitalist Development and Crisis Theory: Accumulation, Regulation and Spatial Restructuring. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19960-0_15
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