Bibliographic record
Abstract
In Cities in Global Capitalism, Ugo Rossi explores the historical and ongoing relationship between cities and capitalist systems of production.Charting the emergence and evolution of what he calls the 'city-capitalism nexus,' Rossi focuses on how cities have become enmeshed in global capitalism through the concentration of fi nancial power, entrepreneurialism, and knowledge-based economies in urban centres.While the book is part of an ongoing literature on cities and capitalism, Rossi's focus on the biopolitical and aff ective dimensions of the city-capitalism nexus helps Cities in Global Capitalism to stand out in this crowded fi eld.Th roughout the book, Rossi aims to show that as today's cities have emerged from the Great Recession, they have become integral to the survival of global capitalism, acting as key sites where capitalist subjectivities are produced, and where social relations, culture, and life itself get swept up into capitalist circuits of valorization.To build this argument, Rossi off ers up a Foucauldian 'history of the present,' outlining the societal transformations that have deepened the links between cities and capitalism.While the book is by no means a strictly historical account of the city-capitalism nexus, Rossi spends signifi cant time grounding what he sees as the 'troubled' and 'ambivalent' condition of today's city-capitalism nexus in its historical context.Focusing fi rst on the 'emergences' of the city-capitalism nexus, Rossi traces the interdependence of cities and capitalism to three key forces which he argues have been 'brought to the fore within the contemporary round of globalization' (p.25): fi nancial power, the entrepreneurialization of self and society, and the rise of cognitive capital.From here, Rossi explores how these 'emergences' have taken on a global dimension, reinforcing the city-capitalism relationship, and diff using over (in Rossi's reading) much of the planet.Th ese early chapters are as much a 'history of the present' as they are a whirlwind tour of urban scholarship since the 1970s.Rossi takes readers through the evolution of scholarly thought on the city-capitalism relationship, touching briefl y on everything from world systems theory, to the planetary urbanization thesis, to 'McDonaldization' and 'Disneyfi cation'.Rossi's theoretical approach is eclectic, and he combines strands of political economy, neoinstitutionalism, and radical political theory to make sense of the evolving citycapitalism nexus.Although Rossi's coverage of these theoretical perspectives can feel rushed, these preliminary chapters eff ectively lay the groundwork for the book's major analytical contribution: an exploration of how the citycapitalism nexus has emerged from the crisis of the global Great Recession.Rossi does not dwell for long on the causes or direct outcomes of the fi nancial crisis or Great Recession (which is probably a good choice, since this is well-covered ground).Instead, Rossi focuses on how these recent crises have been resolved (at least partially) by transformations in urban economies and social dynamics-namely through a wave of new urban technology clusters and the growth of the sharing economy.Rossi argues that these emergent tech-based economies have given cities a new role as engines of post-recession capitalist growth.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".