CONTENTS Preface ix PART 1 Introduction I Urban Restructuring: A Critical View3 John R. Logan and Todd Swanstrom PART II Urban Policy: National and International Comparisons 2 Political Paradoxes of Urban Restructuring: Globalization of the Economy and Localization of Politics?27 Edmond Preteceille 3 Industrial Restructuring, State Intervention, and Uneven Development in the United States and Japan 60 Richard Child Hill 4 Political Responses to Urban Restructuring: The British Experience under Thatcherism 86 Michael Parkinson PART IIIThe Limits and Possibilities of Local Policy 5 Economics, Politics, and Development Policy: The Convergence of New York and London119 Susan S. Fainstein 6 Postindustrialism with a Difference: Global Capitalism in World-Class Cities150 H. V. Savitch 7 Urban Deals in Comparative Perspective175 Harvey Molotch 8 Space for Progressive Local Policy: Examples from the United States and the United Kingdom199 Pierre Clavel and Nancy Kleniewski PART IV Reflections 9 Beyond the City Limits: A Commentary 237 Saskia Sassen 10 Theoretical Methods in Comparative Urban Politics243 John Walton About the Contributors 261 Subject Index 264 Author Index 271