The Making of Global City Regions
Title | The Making of Global City Regions PDF eBook |
Author | Klaus Segbers |
Publisher | JHU Press |
Total Pages | 384 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0801885159 |
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Global City-Regions
Title | Global City-Regions PDF eBook |
Author | Allen J. Scott |
Publisher | OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | 485 |
Release | 2001-01-25 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0191589411 |
There are now more than three hundred city-regions around the world with populations greater than one million. These city-regions are expanding vigorously, and they present many new and deep challenges to researchers and policy-makers in both the more developed and less developed parts of the world. The processes of global economic integration and accelerated urban growth make traditional planning and policy strategies in these regions increasingly inadequate, while more effective approaches remain largely in various stages of hypothesis and experimentation. 'Global City-Regions' represents a multifaceted effort to deal with the many different issues raised by these developments. It seeks at once to define the question of global city-regions and to describe the internal and external dynamics that shape them; it proposes a theorization of global city-regions based on their economic and political responses to intensifying levels of globalization; and it offers a number of policy insights into the severe social problems that confront global city-regions as they come face to face with an economically and politically neoliberal world. At a moment when globalization is increasingly subject to critical scrutiny in many different quarters, this book provides a timely overview of its effects on urban and regional development, one of its most important (but perhaps least understood) corollaries. The book also offers a series of nuanced visions of alternative possible futures.
Globalization and the City
Title | Globalization and the City PDF eBook |
Author | Philipp Strobl Andreas Exenberger (Günter Bischof, James Mokhiber (dir.).) |
Publisher | innsbruck University Press |
Total Pages | 222 |
Release | 2016-09-29 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 3903122238 |
The world today is far less a global village than a “global city”, as global network of multidimensional urban spaces of congestion prominently forming – and also formed by – globalization. But the relevance of cities is nothing but new. They were essential for culture and civilization worldwide, they allowed a centralization of power and knowledge and they were crucial for the division of labor and for the organization of mass demand. Further, as places of intense and continuous interactions, cities are the locations par excellence for global history to take place. Thus, there is a need to study the history of cities in connection with the history of globalization from this perspective. This book is dedicated to contribute to the still underdeveloped but growing literature connecting the history of cities worldwide and their relation to global processes. The authors do so from various disciplinary backgrounds and by referring to different times and places. We visit ancient Alexandria, nineteenth century Zanzibar, and modern-day São Paolo, among others, and we view these cities not only in their globality, but also through their heritage, their economic relevance, their architecture, or financial flows connecting them. Further, the book also contains systematic considerations about “global city”, especially the general role of cities in development, cities in global history teaching, and cities' relationships to global commodity chains.
The Global Cities Reader
Title | The Global Cities Reader PDF eBook |
Author | Neil Brenner |
Publisher | Psychology Press |
Total Pages | 464 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 9780415323444 |
This book contains fifty selections from classic writings by authors such as John Friedmann, Michael Peter Smith, Saskia Sassen, Peter Taylor, Manuel Castells and Anthony King, as well as major contributions by other international scholars of global city formation.
Global City-Twinning in the Digital Age
Title | Global City-Twinning in the Digital Age PDF eBook |
Author | Michel S Laguerre |
Publisher | University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | 234 |
Release | 2019-12-16 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0472131656 |
The World's Cities
Title | The World's Cities PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew James Jacobs |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 426 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0415894859 |
The World’s Cities offers instructors and students in higher education an accessible introduction to the three major perspectives influencing city-regions worldwide: City-Regions in a World System; Nested City-Regions; and The City-Region as the Engine of Economic Activity/Growth. The book provides students with helpful essays on each perspective, case studies to illustrate each major viewpoint, and discussion questions following each reading. The World’s Cities concludes with an original essay by the editor that helps students understand how an analysis incorporating a combination of theoretical perspectives and factors can provide a richer appreciation of the world’s city dynamics.
The Global City
Title | The Global City PDF eBook |
Author | Saskia Sassen |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | 481 |
Release | 2013-04-04 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1400847486 |
This classic work chronicles how New York, London, and Tokyo became command centers for the global economy and in the process underwent a series of massive and parallel changes. What distinguishes Sassen's theoretical framework is the emphasis on the formation of cross-border dynamics through which these cities and the growing number of other global cities begin to form strategic transnational networks. All the core data in this new edition have been updated, while the preface and epilogue discuss the relevant trends in globalization since the book originally came out in 1991.