Life Space and Economic Space

John Friedmann is professor of urban planning at the University of California, Los Angeles. He spent more than a dozen years as a policy adviser in Brazil, Venezuela, Chile, Korea, and Japan. Among his best known books are Regional Development Policy and Planning in the Public Domain.

• Part I Urbanization in the Global Economy 1. On the Contradictions Between City and Countryside 2. The Crisis of Transition: A Critique of Strategies of Crisis Management 3. World City Formation 4. Life Space and Economic Space: Contradictions in Regional Development 5. The Barrio Economy and Collective Self-Empowerment in Latin America Part II Spatial Aspects of National Planning 6. The Spatial Organization of Power in the Development of Urban Systems 7. Urban Bias in Regional Development 8. The Active Community: Toward a Political-Territorial Framework for Rural Development in Asia 9. Political and Technical Moments in Planning: Agropolitan Development Revisited 10. Planning in Latin America: From Technocratic Illusion to Open Democracy Part III Epilogue 11. The Crisis of Belief