Global Finance and Urban Living

This incisive inter-disciplinary text provides a major contribution to the study of finance capital and the metropolis. It is the first authoritative account of the momentous changes in the organisation of finance capital that occurred in the 1980s. But it never contents itself with a mere record of events. Changes in finance are scrupulously and consistently related to changes in urban forms, notably metropolitan lifestyles and aesthetics. PART 1: Growth and Dynamics of Financial Markets, 1. London's Financial Markets: Perspectives and Prospects Leonard Stafford 2. London as an International Financial Centre Jerry Coakley 3. Financial Building Blocks in the Context of a Changing National and International Environment Nick Robinson 4. The Private Client Stockbroker Micheal Lenhoff 5. Fraudbusting in London: Developments in the Policing of White Collar Crime Micheal Levi 6. Cultural Contradictions in the Legitimation of Market Practice: Paradox in the Regulation of the City Christopher Stanley 7. Old City and New Times: Economic and Political Aspects of Deregulation Bob Jessop and Rob Stones PART 2: 8. The City as a Landscape of Power: London and New York as Global Financial Capitals Sharon Zukin 9. City Futures Keith Cowlard 10. The Coming of the Groundscrapers Stephanie Williams 11. An Urban Narrative and the Imperatives of the City? Leslie Budd 12. In the Wake of Money: The City of London and the Accumulation of Value Nigel Thrift and Andrew Leyshon 13. Yuppies: A Keyword of the 1980s Sam Whimster 14. Brick Lane: A Village Economy in the Shadow of the City? Chris Rhodes and Nurun Nabi Index