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Rethinking global urbanism : comparative insights from secondary cities
- Title
- Rethinking global urbanism : comparative insights from secondary cities / edited by Xiangming Chen and Ahmed Kanna.
- Publication
- New York : Routledge, 2012.
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- Description
- xvii, 269 pages : illustrations maps; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Arguing that the focus in global urban studies on cities such as New York, London, Tokyo in the global North, Mexico City and Shanghai in the developing world, and other major nodes of the world economy, has skewed the concept of the global city toward economics, this volume gathers a diverse group of contributors to focus on smaller and less economically dominant cities. It highlights other important and relatively ignored themes such as cultural globalization, alternative geographies of the global, and the influence of deeper urban histories (particularly those relating to colonialism) in.
- Series Statement
- Routledge advances in geography ; 7
- Uniform Title
- Routledge advances in geography ; 7.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Part I. Urban present and past : how culture, history, and politics shape global and local cityscapes -- Competitive globalization and urban change : the allure of cultural strategies / Sharon Zukin -- The trajectories of two "Asian tigers" : the imperial roots of capitalism in Dubai and Singapore / Ahmed Kanna -- Shaping politics in Chinatown : the intersection of global politics and community politics in wartime and Cold War San Francisco / Scott H. Tang -- Part II. Urban contraction and expansion : economic restructuring and governance in de-globalizing ad globalizing secondary cities -- Staggering job loss, a shrinking revenue base, and grinding decline : Springfield, Massachusetts, in a globalized economy / Robert Forrant -- From cars to casinos : global pasts and local futures in the Detroit-Windsor transnational metropolitan area / Brent D. Ryan -- From a fishing village via an instant city to a secondary global city : the "miracle" and growth pains of Shenzhen special economic zone in China / Xiangming Chen and Tomás De'Medici -- The third coming of China's special economic zones : the rise and regional dimensions of Tianjin Binhai New Area / Chang Liu and Xiangming Chen -- Social accountability in African cities : comparing participatory budgeting in Johannesburg and Harare / Tyanai Masiya -- Part III. The contested urban arena : identity and exclusion in secondary cities -- Globalization and the construction of identity in two new Southeast Asian capitals : Putrajaya and Dompak / Sarah Moser -- Off limits and out of bounds : taxi driver perceptions of dangerous people and places in Kunming, China / Beth E. Notar -- Seats of differences : coffeehouses and the geo-economics of gender in contemporary inner-city Tunis / Rodney W. Collins -- From the "margin of the margins" in Brazil : black women confront the racial logic of spacial exclusion Keisha-Khan Y. Perry -- Epilogue : second may be the best--theorizing the global urban from the middle / Xiangming Chen and Michael Magdelinskas.
- ISBN
- 9780415892230
- 0415892236
- 9780203118368 (ebk.) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2011047889
- OCLC
- ocn676728511
- 676728511
- SCSB-9412971
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library