Globalization and Urban Development

✍ Scribed by Harry W. Richardson, Chang-Hee Christine Bae (auth.), Professor Harry W. Richardson, Dr. Chang-Hee Christine Bae (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 320
• Series: Advances in Spatial Science
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Most research on globalization has focused on macroeconomic and economy-wide consequences. This book explores an under-researched area, the impacts of globalization on cities and national urban hierarchies, especially but not solely in developing countries. Most of the globalization-urban research has concentrated on the "global cities" (e.g. New York, London, Paris, Tokyo) that influence what happens in the rest of the world. In contrast, this research looks at the cities at the receiving end of the forces of globalization. The general finding is that large cities, on balance, benefit from globalization, although in some cases at the expense of widening spatial inequities.

✦ Table of Contents

Introduction....Pages 1-10
Globalization, spatial allocation of resources and spatial impacts: A conceptual framework....Pages 13-27
Urban development in the global periphery: The consequences of economic and ideological globalization....Pages 29-39
Impact of globalization on cities and city-related policies in India....Pages 43-58
The impacts of globalization on the urban spatial-economic system in Korea....Pages 59-78
Trade openness and regional development in a developing country....Pages 79-94
Do the donors have it right? Decentralization and changing local governance in Indonesia....Pages 95-108
South Africa in the global context: The view from above and below....Pages 109-122
The Rio/São Paulo Extended Metropolitan Region: A quest for global integration....Pages 125-146
Mexico City as a peripheral global player: The two sides of the coin....Pages 147-164
Globalization and Latin America: Understanding the global links of Colombia’s capital....Pages 165-179
Tijuana-San Diego: Globalization and the transborder metropolis....Pages 181-195
Globalization and Los Angeles....Pages 197-209
The impacts of globalization on St. Petersburg: A secondary world city in from the cold?....Pages 211-224
Building world city Tokyo: Globalization and conflict over urban space....Pages 225-237
Measuring world city formation — The case of Shanghai....Pages 239-250
Karachi — a case of asymmetric inclusion in the current globalization?....Pages 251-270
Information technology and urban spatial structure: A comparative analysis of the Chicago and Seoul regions....Pages 273-288
Globalization and urban environmental transitions: Comparison of New York’s and Tokyo’s experiences....Pages 289-310
Above and below the line: Globalization and urban form in Bangkok....Pages 311-321

✦ Subjects

Regional Science; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning; Economic Geography; History