The Globalizing Cities Reader

✍ Scribed by Xuefei Ren, Roger Keil

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 512
• Series: Routledge Urban Readers
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The newly revised Globalizing Cities Reader reflects how the geographies of theory have recently shifted away from the western vantage points from which much of the classic work in this field was developed.

The expanded volume continues to make available many of the original and foundational works that underpin the research field, while expanding coverage to familiarize students with new theoretical and epistemological positions as well as emerging research foci and horizons. It contains 38 new chapters, including key writings on globalizing cities from leading thinkers such as John Friedmann, Michael Peter Smith, Saskia Sassen, Peter Taylor, Manuel Castells, Anthony King, Jennifer Robinson, Ananya Roy, and Fulong Wu. The new Reader reflects the fact that world and global city studies have evolved in exciting and wide-ranging ways, and the very notion of a distinct "global" class of cities has recently been called into question. The sections examine the foundations of the field and processes of urban restructuring and global city formation. A large number of new entries focus on the emerging urban worlds of Asia, Latin America and Africa, including Beijing, Bogota, Cairo, Cape Town, Delhi, Istanbul, Medellin, Mumbai, Phnom Penh, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, and Shanghai. The book also presents cases off the conventional map of global cities research, such as smaller cities and less known urban regions that are undergoing processes of globalization.

The book is a key resource for students and scholars alike who seek an accessible compendium of the intellectual foundations of global urban studies as well as an overview of the emergent patterns of early 21st century urbanization and associated sociopolitical contestation around the world.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of plates
List of contributors
Acknowledgments
Editors’ introduction: from Global to Globalizing Cities
PART 1 FOUNDATIONS
Introduction to Part One
1 Prologue: “The metropolitan explosion”
2 “Divisions of space and time in Europe”
3 “World city formation: an agenda for research and action”
4 “Locating cities on global circuits”
5 “Urban specialization in the world system: an investigation of historical cases”
6 “Accumulation and comparative urban systems”
7 “The world-system perspective and urbanization”
8 “Global city formation in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles: an historical perspective”
9 “Global and world cities: a view from off the map”
10 “Space in the globalizing city”
PART 2 PATHWAYS
Introduction to Part Two
11 Prologue: “Istanbul was our past, Istanbul is our future”
12 “The city as a landscape of power: London and New York as global financial capitals”
13 “Detroit and Houston: two cities in global perspective”
14 “The stimulus of a little confusion: a contemporary comparison of Amsterdam and Los Angeles”
15 “Global city Zurich: paradigms of urban development”
16 “From ‘state-owned’ to ‘City Inc.’: the re-territorialization of the state in Shanghai”
17 “The dream of Delhi as a global city”
18 “‘Fourth world’ cities in the global economy: the case of Phnom Penh, Cambodia”
19 “Medellín and Bogotá: the global cities of the other globalization”
PART 3 RELATIONS
Introduction to Part Three
20 Prologue: “Specification of the world city network”
21 “Local and global: cities in network society”
22 “Comparing London and Frankfurt as world cities: a relational study of contemporary urban change”
23 “Global grids of glass: on global cities, telecommunications and planetary urban networks”
24 “Global cities and the spread of infectious disease: the case of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in Toronto, Canada”
25 “Flying high (in the competitive sky): conceptualizing the role of airports in global city-regions through ‘aero-regionalism’”
26 “One package at a time: the distributive world city”
27 “Global cities between biopolitics and necropolitics: (in)security and circuits of knowledge in the global city network”
28 “The virtual palimpsest of the global city network”
29 “Relationality/territoriality: toward conceptualization of cities in the world”
PART 4 REGULATIONS
Introduction to Part Four
30 Prologue: “The global city as world order”
31 “Globalization and the rise of city-regions”
32 “Global cities, ‘glocal states’: global city formation and state territorial restructuring in contemporary Europe”
33 “Global cities and developmental states: Tokyo and Seoul”
34 “World city formation on the Asia Pacific Rim: poverty, ‘everyday’ forms of civil society and environmental management”
35 “New globalism, new urbanism: gentrification as global urban strategy”
36 “Between world history and state formation: new perspectives on Africa’s cities”
37 “The ‘right to the city’: institutional imperatives of a developmental state”
38 “Global Cities vs. ‘global cities’: rethinking contemporary urbanism as public ecology”
PART 5 CONTESTATIONS
Introduction to Part Five
39 Prologue: “From Tahrir Square to Emaar Square: Cairo’s private road to a private city”
40 “Local actors in global politics”
41 “The right to the city”
42 “Urban social movements in an era of globalization”
43 “São Paulo: the city and its protest”
44 “Global city building in China and its discontents”
45 “Between ghetto and globe: remaking urban life in Africa”
46 “World cities and union renewal”
47 “Blockupy fights back: global city formation in Frankfurt am Main after the financial crisis”
PART 6 CULTURE
Introduction to Part Six
48 Prologue: “High culture and hard labor”
49 “World cities: Global? Postcolonial? Postimperial? Or just the result of happenstance? Some cultural comments”
50 “‘Global media cities’: major nodes of globalising culture and media industries”
51 “Willing the global city: Berlin’s cultural strategies of interurban competition after 1989”
52 “The transnational capitalist class and contemporary architecture in globalizing cities”
53 “Shanghai nightscapes and ethnosexual contact zones”
54 “Graffiti or street art? Negotiating the moral geographies of the creative city”
55 “Spaces and networks of musical creativity in the city”
56 “Provincializing the global city: from Bombay to Mumbai”
PART 7 FRONTIERS
Introduction to Part Seven
57 Prologue: “World city”
58 “The global cities discourse: a return to the master narrative?”
59 “External urban relational processes: introducing central flow theory to complement central place theory”
60 “Beyond the global city concept and the myth of ‘command and control’”
61 “World cities under conditions of financialized globalization: towards an augmented world city hypothesis”
62 “Can the straw man speak? An engagement with postcolonial critiques of ‘global cities research’”
63 “Global suburbanization”
64 “What is urban about critical urban theory?”
65 “Planetary urbanization”
66 “New geographies of theorizing the urban: putting comparison to work for global urban studies”
67 “Governing the informal in globalizing cities: comparing China, India and Brazil”
68 “The urban revolution”
Index