Rethinking Global Urbanism: Comparative Insights from Secondary Cities (Hardcover)
 
作者: Xiangming Chen 
分類: Development studies ,
Anthropology ,
Human geography ,
Regional geography  
書城編號: 686622


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出版社: Routledge Academic
出版日期: 2012/04/25
重量: 0.55 kg
ISBN: 9780415892230
 
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Arguing that the focus in global urban studies on cities such as New York, London, Tokyo in the global North, Mexico City and Shanghai in the developing world, and other major nodes of the world economy, has skewed the concept of the global city toward economics, this volume gathers a diverse group of contributors to focus on smaller and less economically dominant cities. It highlights other important and relatively ignored themes such as cultural globalization, alternative geographies of the global, and the influence of deeper urban histories (particularly those relating to colonialism) in order to advance an alternative view of the global city.

Reviews

"A great collection that takes us to the next phase of global urbanism. The editors forcefully argue for the need to incorporate variables that have been mostly neglected in the extant research in this field, or are only now emerging. This opens up challenging new analytic ground." —Saskia Sassen, Columbia University, author of Territory, Authority, Rights, USA

"This volume marks a novel, even radical departure from the literature on global cities. Previous scholarship has tended to focus on a few global cities that act as financial and command centers. This volume is a departure because it takes seriously the idea that global processes are at work in cities of all sizes and in all regions of the world. In sum it offers an imaginative rethinking, just as the title promises." —Dennis R. Judd, Interim Director, Great Cities Institute Professor, Department of Political Science University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

"Rethinking Global Urbanism travels through an array of cities less often explored by urban scholars and along the way develops and reworks many significant themes in the field. The book sets the scene for inventing new approaches to cities which refuse old categorisations and demand instead that we think cities like San Francisco and Shenzhen, Tunis and Detroit, together. Historically astute bun eye to the future of cities, this volume attends to themes such as economy and culture, governance and globalisation through wonderfully detailed city case studies but with a clear ambition to informing wider theoretical debates. This collection is an important contribution to the emerging body of work in global comparative urbanism."—Jennifer Robinson, University College London, UK

Rethinking Global Urbanism offers vibrant, refreshing dialogues about cities in a shifting global web. Going beyond the sprawling iconic metropolitan nodes that generally have dominated social science theory and analyses, the authors add complexities and shadows to diverse case studies from Johannesburg, Dubai, Shenzhen, Salvador, Detroit, San Francisco, Puttrajaya and Tianjin. Analyses range from the trajectories of emergent, even "instant" world capitals to the strategies of older cities staving off decline; these are the cities of the future as well as the cities next door. Throughout the text, the au...

Xiangming Chen 作者作品表

Introduction to Cities (Paperback)

Rethinking Global Urbanism: Comparative Insights from Secondary Cities (Hardcover)

eBook: As Borders Bend: Transnational Spaces on the Pacific Rim (DRM PDF)

eBook: As Borders Bend: Transnational Spaces on the Pacific Rim (DRM EPUB)

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