Globalizing Cities: A New Spatial Order?

Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Year: 2000
Tongue: English
Leaves: 336
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.

Content:
Chapter 1 Introduction (pages 1–21): Peter Marcuse and Ronald van Kempen
Chapter 2 The Unavoidable Continuities of the City (pages 22–36): Robert A. Beauregard and Anne Haila
Chapter 3 From the Metropolis to Globalization: The Dialectics of Race and Urban Form (pages 37–55): William W. Goldsmith
Chapter 4 From Colonial City to Globalizing City? The Far?from?Complete Spatial Transformation of Calcutta (pages 56–77): Sanjoy Chakravorty
Chapter 5 Rio de Janeiro: Emerging Dualization in a Historically Unequal City (pages 78–94): Luiz Cesar de Queiroz Ribeiro and Edward E. Telles
Chapter 6 Singapore: the Changing Residential Landscape in a Winner City (pages 95–126): Leo van Grunsven
Chapter 7 Tokyo: Patterns of Familiarity and Partitions of Difference (pages 128–156): Paul Waley
Chapter 8 Still a Global City: The Racial and Ethnic Segmentation of New York (pages 158–185): John R. Logan
Chapter 9 Brussels: Post?Fordist Polarization in a Fordist Spatial Canvas (pages 186–210): Christian Kesteloot
Chapter 10 The Imprint of the Post?Fordist Transition on Australian Cities (pages 211–227): Blair Badcock
Chapter 11 The Globalization of Frankfurt am Main: Core, Periphery and Social Conflict (pages 228–248): Roger Keil and Klaus Ronneberger
Chapter 12 Conclusion: A Changed Spatial Order (pages 249–275): Peter Marcuse and Ronald van Kempen

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