The Global Cities Reader

Neil Brenner, Roger Keil - Collection Urban Reader Series

436 pages, parution le 22/12/2005

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Since the early 1980s, the field of urban studies has been revolutionized by the study of global forces and their impact on cities. Providing the first comprehensive survey of this new interdisciplinary scholarship on globalized urbanization, this important volume contains fifty selections from classic writings by authors such as John Freidmann, Michael Peter Smith, Saskia Sassen, Peter Taylor, Manuel Castells, Anthony King and Mike Davis, as well as major contributions by other international scholars of global city formation.

Classic and contemporary case-studies of globalizing cities serve to illuminate global city theory within Europe, North America and East Asia, whilst contributing authors explore key topics including:

the histories and geographies of globalized urbanization
the social and economic order of globalizing cities
pathways of globalized urbanization in the older industrialized world, the developing world and on the margins of the world economy
state restructuring, urban governance and socio-political contestation in globalizing cities
culture, identity and representation in globalizing cities
emerging issues and debates in contemporary research on globalized urbanization.

Containing wide-ranging discussions on major theories, methods, themes and debates, and a combination of theoretical and methodological contributions, comparative analyses and detailed case studies, this key textbook will appeal to a broad interdisciplinary readership at undergraduate and graduate levels in urban, globalization, development, cultural, and environmental studies.

L'auteur - Neil Brenner

Neil Brenner is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Metropolitan Studies Program, New York University.

L'auteur - Roger Keil

Roger Keil is Professor in the Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, Toronto.

Sommaire

List of Plates
List of Contributors
Acknowledgments
Editor's Introduction: Global City in Retrospect and Prospect
Global City Formation: Emergence of a Concept and Research Zgenda
Structures, Dynamics and Geographies of Global City Formation
Local Pathways of Global City Formation: Classic and Contemporary Case-Studies
Globalization, Urbanization and Uneven Spatial Development: Perspectives on Global City Formation in The Global South
Contested Cities: State restructuring, Local Politics and Civil Society
Representation, Identity and Culture in Global Cities: Rethinking the Local and the Global
Emerging Issues Cities Research Refinements, Critiques and New Frontiers
Illustration Credits
Copyright Information
Index

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Éditeur(s)	Routledge
Auteur(s)	Neil Brenner, Roger Keil
Collection	Urban Reader Series
Parution	22/12/2005
Nb. de pages	436
Format	19 x 24,5
Couverture	Broché
Poids	991g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780415323451
ISBN13	978-0-415-32345-1