CAPITALIST RESTRUCTURING AND LOCAL ECONOMIC-DEVELOPMENT - PERSPECTIVEFROM AN ULTRA-PERIPHERAL CITY-ECONOMY

Adopting a locality studies approach, this paper analyses the economic responses within an ultra-peripheral city-economy to contemporary cap italist restructuring. Initial, unco-ordinated responses are shown to have been followed by tentative co-operation between territorial local authority, business leaders, and tertiary education and research inst itutes. Attention is drawn to the rapid and far-reaching process of ec onomic restructuring in New Zealand, itself generated by international economic changes, in which context this local response has been forge d. In the light of British experience, an assessment is made of the ap propriateness of changes undertaken and strategies adopted.