Screen LibraryGlobal metropolitan：globalizing cities in a capitalist world
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| Published: |
Routledge,
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| Publisher Address: | London New York |
| Publication Dates: | 2004. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Questioning cities |
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| Carrier Form: | viii, 146 p.: ill. ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
0415305411 (hbk.) : ?c 1598.40 041530542X (pbk.) |
| Index Number: | C912 |
| CLC: |
C912.81 F29 |
| Call Number: | F29/S559 |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references ([131]-139) and index. Globalization and the city -- From world city to globalizing cities -- Globalizing cities -- Black holes and loose connections -- Tensions in the global city -- The modalities of the global city -- Going for gold: globalizing the Olympics, localizing the games -- The super-rich and the global city -- The global, the city, and the body. The force of globalization is making cities change all around the world. Short's study explores how the discourse of globalization has become a major narrative in the restructuring of cities in many parts of the world. |