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— Jamie Peck, Professor of Geography and Distinguished University Scholar, University of British Columbia
Sami Moisio is Professor of Spatial Planning and Policy in the Department of Geosciences and Geography, and Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Science at the University of Helsinki. His recent book, Geopolitics of the Knowledge-Based Economy won the 2019 Regional Studies Association Book Award.
Ugo Rossi is Professor of Political and Economic Geography at the Gran Sasso Science Institute, L'Aquila. He is the author of Cities in Global Capitalism (2017).
Introduction: Neo-feudalism or new monopoly capital?
Part I Macro-political economy of the urban field
1 The rise of the corporatized state
Introduction
The urban technological paradigm
The competition state
The corporatized state
Conclusion
2 The urban field and the strategic urbanization of the state
Introduction
The urban field
On the “national” urban field
The urban field in the age of national competitiveness
Designing the Finnish nation-state as a digital space
Conclusion
Part II Micro-political economy of the urban field
3 Labour
Introduction
Labour as source of economic value
Exploiting labour power in techno-capitalism
The blurring of rent and profit
The contested control of the urban field
Conclusion
4 Human capital
Introduction
The rise and rise of human capital theory
The early stages of human capital theory
Redefining the role of the state
Human capital’s new clothes: endogenous growth theory
Human capital and the housing crisis
The human capital dystopia is yet to come
Conclusion
5 Startups
Introduction
The world of startups
Startup economy as a constituent of the urban field
Extracting economic value through the urban field
The corporatized state in the startup world
The story of Wolt as an urban startup company
The implicit role of the state in the valuation process
Conclusion
6 Forms of life
Introduction
Constituting the urban experience economy
Naples: Becoming a mass-tourism city
Sophia Loren and the politics of the event
Staging the open city
The cult of Maradona
Conclusion
Coda: The value of the urban field