Urban Policy under Capitalism

Urban Policy Under Capitalism breaks with both orthodox Marxism and liberal urban analysis to study urban development as a function of the capitalist mode of production. For them the search for optimal urban policy is ideologically mystifying -- the demands of efficient capital accumulation, of different business interests, and of social welfare clash to produce urban policy. Their work takes a genuinely comparative perspective, researching conditions in many parts of the world to identify common trends.

′This volume is a collection of essays containing stimulating thought and refreshing approach to the understanding of state activities affecting the use of urban space and built environment. Studies like this bunch of essays would give a fillip to the serious pursuit of the urban theme in the context of functioning of modern capitalism.′ -- Nagarlok, Vol 15 No 2, June 1983