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Local City Structures under Pressure to Change

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The term ‘globalization’ has really come into its own in recent years, although the concept of a centrifugal broadening of our horizons on a world scale is not new. Wallerstein (1974, 1979, 1983) first described how capitalism would develop as a historic global system in a series of publications back in the 1970s. In his interpretation, the global system is a configuration of central, semi-peripheral and peripheral states. It is thereby described as one unit with a single division of labour and many different cultural systems (1979, pp. 31–67). However, in the 1990s, the process of development of the division of labour has intensified.

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  1. University of Hanover, Germany

    Bernhard Blanke (Professor of Public Policy) (Professor of Public Policy)

  2. University of Bristol, UK

    Randall Smith (Reader in Policy Studies) (Reader in Policy Studies)

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Schubert, H. (1999). Local City Structures under Pressure to Change. In: Blanke, B., Smith, R. (eds) Cities in Transition. Anglo-German Foundation for The Study of Industrial Society. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780333982273_10

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