The global cities reader

Contiene índice analítico.

PART 1. GLOBAL CITY FORMATION: EMERGENCE OF A CONCEPT AND RESEARCH AGENDA : Prologue : The metropolitan explosion / Peter Hall -- Divisions of space and time in Europe / Fernand Braudel -- Urban specialization in the world system: an investigation of historical classes / -- Nestor Rodriguez and Joe R. Feagin -- Global city formation in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles: an historical perspective / Janet Abu-Lughod -- The new international division of labor, multinational corporations, and urban hierarchy / Robert B. Cohen -- World city formation: an agenda for research and action / John Friedmann and Goetz Wolff -- The world city hypothesis / John Friedmann -- PART 2. STRUCTURES, DYNAMICS AND GEOGRAPHIES OF GLOBAL CITY FORMATION : Prologue : 100-mile cities / Deyan Sudjic -- Cities and communities in the global economy / Saskia Sassen -- Locating cities on global circuits / Saskia Sassen -- World city network: a new metageography? / Jonathan V. Beaverstock, Richard G. Smith and Peter J. Taylor -- Global cities and global classes: the peripheralization of labour in New York City / Robert Ross and Kent Trachte -- Inequality in global city-regions / Susan S. Fainstein -- Global grids of glass: on global cities, telecommunications and planetary urban networks / Stephen Graham -- PART 3. LOCAL PATHWAYS OF GLOBAL CITY FORMATION: CLASSIC AND CONTEMPORARY CASE STUDIES : Prologue : Cities, the informational society and the global economy / Manuel Castells -- The city as a landscape of power: London and New York as global financial capitals / Sharon Zukin -- The urban restructuring process in Tokyo during the 1980s: transforming Tokyo into a world city / Takashi Machimura -- Detroit and Houston: two cities in global perspective / Richard Child Hill and Joe R. Feagin -- Global city Zurich: paradigms of urban development / Christian Schmid -- Global cities and developmental states: New York, Tokyo and Seoul / Richard Child Hill and June Woo Kim -- The stimulus of a little confusion: a contemporary comparison of Amsterdam and Los Angeles Edward W. Soja -- PART 4. GLOBALIZATION, URBANIZATION AND UNEVEN SPATIAL DEVELOPMENT: PERSPECTIVES ON GLOBAL CITY FORMATION IN/FROM THE GLOBAL SOUTH : Prologue : A global agora vs. gated city-regions / Riccardo Petrella -- Building, architecture, and the new international division of labor / Anthony D. King -- The world city hypothesis: reflections from the periphery / David Simon -- 'Fourth world' cities in the global economy: the case of Phnom Penh, Cambodia / Gavin Shatkin -- Global and world cities: a view from off the map / Jennifer Robinson -- Globalization and the corporate geography of cities in the less-developed world / Richard Grant and Jan Nijman -- São Paulo: outsourcing and downgrading of labor in a globalizing city / Simone Buechler. PART 5. CONTESTED CITIES: STATE RESTRUCTURING, LOCAL POLITICS AND CIVIL SOCIETY : Prologue : The global city as world order / Warren Magnusson -- Global cities, 'glocal' states: global city formation and state territorial restructuring in contemporary Europe / Neil Brenner -- World city formation on the Asia-Pacific rim: poverty, 'everyday' forms of civil society and environmental management / Mike Douglass -- 'Global Cities' vs 'global cities': rethinking contemporary urbanism as public ecology / Timothy Luke -- The neglected builder of global cities / Anne Haila -- The globalization of Frankfurt am Main: core, periphery and social conflict / Roger Keil and Klaus Ronneberger -- Urban social movements in an era of globalization / Margit Mayer -- PART 6. REPRESENTATION, IDENTITY AND CULTURE IN GLOBAL CITIES: RETHINKING THE LOCAL AND THE GLOBAL : Prologue : Towards cosmopolis: a postmodern agenda / Leonie Sandercock -- The cultural role of world cities / Ulf Hannerz -- World cities: Global? Postcolonial? Postimperial? Or just the result of happenstance? Some cultural comments / Anthony D. King -- 'Global media cities': major nodes of globalizing culture and media industries / Stefan Krätke -- Willing the global city: Berlin's cultural strategies of inter-urban competition after 1989 / Ute Lehrer -- Exploring Colombo: the relevance of a knowledge of New York / Nihal Perera -- Culturing the world city: an exhibition of the global present / Steven Flusty -- PART 7. EMERGING ISSUES IN GLOBAL CITIES RESEARCH: REFINEMENTS, CRITIQUES AND NEW FRONTIERS : Prologue : Whose city is it? / Saskia Sassen -- Space in the globalizing city / Peter Marcuse -- Globalization and the rise of city-regions / Allen J. Scott -- The global cities discourse: a return to the master narrative? / Michael Peter Smith -- Immigration and the global city hypothesis: towards an alternative research agenda / Michael Samers -- Pathways to global city formation: a view from the developmental city-state of Singapore / Kris Olds and Henry Wai-Chung Yeung -- World city topologies / Richard G. Smith -- The urban revolution / Henri Lefebvre