Globalizing Cities

✍ Scribed by Peter Marcuse, Ronald Van Kempen

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Year: 2000
Tongue: English
Leaves: 338
Series: Studies in Urban and Social Change
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This exciting collection of original essays provides students and professionals with an international and comparative examination of changes in global cities, revealing a growing pattern of social and spatial division or polarization.

✦ Table of Contents

GLOBALIZING CITIES: A NEW SPATIAL ORDER?......Page 5
Contents......Page 7
List of Figures......Page 9
List of Maps......Page 10
List of Tables......Page 12
List of Contributors......Page 14
Series Editors’ Preface......Page 17
Preface......Page 19
1 Introduction......Page 21
2 The Unavoidable Continuities of the City......Page 42
3 From the Metropolis to Globalization: The Dialectics of Race and Urban Form......Page 57
4 From Colonial City to Globalizing City? The Far-from complete Spatial Transformation of Calcutta......Page 76
5 Rio de Janeiro: Emerging Dualization in a Historically Unequal City......Page 98
6 Singapore: the Changing Residential Landscape in a Winner City......Page 115
7 Tokyo: Patterns of Familiarity and Partitions of Difference......Page 147
8 Still a Global City: The Racial and Ethnic Segmentation of New York......Page 178
9 Brussels: Post-Fordist Polarization in a Fordist Spatial Canvas......Page 206
10 The Imprint of the Post-Fordist Transition on Australian Cities......Page 231
11 The Globalization of Frankfurt am Main: Core, Periphery and Social Conflict......Page 248
12 Conclusion: A Changed Spatial Order......Page 269
List of References......Page 296
Index......Page 322

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