The Metropolitan Corporate Centre: Reinvention of the Medieval City-State

Grant Ledgerwood and Arlene Idol Broadhurst

Chapter 6 in Environment, Ethics and the Corporation, 2000, pp 111-141 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Too often the future of organisations is explored as if they exist in a ‘non-place urban realm’, in the urban philosopher Mel Webber’s famous phrase of the 1960s. In the technical jargon, economies and companies have become increasingly de-spatialised. They tend to live in information networks and undifferentiated airport cities spanning the globe. No matter what the country of origin, specific global icons permeate multinational companies - glass air-conditioned buildings, business suits, sleek cars, massive hotels, and corporate jets.

Keywords: Environmental Assessment; Social Housing; Environmental Impact Assessment; Rail Station; Channel Tunnel (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000
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DOI: 10.1057/9780333981634_7

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