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Globalizing cities a new spatial order? /

This exciting collection of original essays provides students and professionals with an international and comparative examination of changes in global cities, revealing a growing pattern of social and spatial division or polarization.

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Corporate Authors: Wiley InterScience (Online service)
Group Author: Marcuse, Peter.; Kempen, Ronald van.
Published:
Literature type: Electronic eBook
Language: English
Series: Studies in urban and social change
Subjects:
Geografía humana.
Cities and towns.
Spatial behavior.
Polarization (Social sciences)
Human geography.
Conducta espacial.
Polarización (Ciencias sociales)
Villes.
Comportement spatial.
Polarisation collective.
Géographie sociale.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Urban. > Urban.
Stedelijke ontwikkeling.
Sociale verandering.
Internationalisatie.
Développement urbain.
Fragmentation (Urbanisme)
Mondialisation.
Aspect culturel.
Aspect politique.
Race.
Ville.
Stadtsoziologie.
Globalisierung.
Ballungsraum.
Electronic books.
Online Access: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9780470712887
Summary: This exciting collection of original essays provides students and professionals with an international and comparative examination of changes in global cities, revealing a growing pattern of social and spatial division or polarization.
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (xviii, 318 pages) : illustrations, maps
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 276-301) and index.
ISBN: 9780470712887
0470712880
9780470712634
0470712635
Index Number: HT119
CLC: C912.81
Contents: Introduction / Peter Marcuse and Ronald van Kempen. -- The unavoidable continuities of the city / Robert A. Beauregard and Anne Haila. -- From the metropolis to globalization: the dialectics of race and urban form / William W. Goldsmith. -- From colonial city to globalizing city?: the far-from-complete spatial transformation of Calcutta / Sanjoy Chakravorty. -- Rio de Janeiro: emerging dualization in a historically unequal city / Luiz Cesar de Queiroz Ribeiro and Edward E. Telles. -- Singapore: the changing residential landscape in a winner city / Leo van Grunsven. -- Tokyo: patterns of familiarity and partitions of difference/ Paul Waley. -- Still a global city: the racial and ethnic segmentation of New York / John R. Logan. -- Brussels: post-fordist polarization in a fordist spatial canvas / Christian Kesteloot. -- The imprint of the post-fordist transition on Australian cities / Blair Badcock. -- The globalization of Frankfurt am Main: core, periphery and social conflict / Roger Keil and Klaus Ronneberger. -- Conclusion: a changed spatial order / Peter Marcuse and Ronald van Kempen.

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