CONTENTS : Acknowledgements vii Introduction 1 1. The Informational Mode of Development and the Restructuring of Capitalism 7 2. The New Industrial Space : The Locational Pattern of Information - Technology Manufacturing and its Effects on Spatial Dynamics 33 3. The Space of Flows : The Use of New Technologies in the Information Economy, and the Dialectics between Centralization and Decentralization of Services 126 4. Information Technology, the Restructuring of Capital-Labor Relationships, and the Rise of the Dual City 172 5. High Technology and the Transition from the Urban Welfare State to the Suburban Warfare State 229 6. The Internationalization of the Economy, New Technologies, and the Variable Geometry of the Spatial Structure 307 Conclusion : The Reconstruction of Social Meaning in the Space of Flows 348 Notes 354 Index 389