Economic restructuring of the 21st century is changing production methods and location requirements most industries. Mass on outskirts cities, as was common in 20th Fordism, largely being replaced by an economic model characterised a multitude networked small medium-sized sites well logistics facilities. In this article, we want to examine if also creates opportunity combine some smaller indust...

Growth patterns of knowledge based economies are still ill defined. They are in the making , presenting countries, in a phase of transition, with different adjustment opportunities. New forms of competition are developing on product, labour and capital markets. Large services networks are reorganising. Finance is playing a new role in controlling economic activities. Consumers are developing sp...

Urban and regional planning is a notion that encompasses the whole set of social activities aimed at anticipating, representing and regulating the development of an urban or a regional area. It thus articulates intellectual activities of study and prospective, of social and economic forecasting with more concrete activities such as infrastructure programming, land reservation and land use regul...

While there is an agreement that the Fordist accumulation regime has come to an end in the course of the 1970s, there is no agreement on how to characterize the post-Fordist regime (or if a such is already in place). The paper seeks put together various arguments related to financialization (in the broad sense) from a macroeconomic point of view and investigate the relevance of these arguments ...

Chapter 1 illustrated the centrality of the role of the state in the establishment, organization, and coordination of the Fordist system of regulated capitalism. Before entering its final crisis in the late 1970s, the state was instrumental in fostering the material conditions of an ideology and a culture that legitimated regulated capitalism. This chapter continues the discussion of the condit...