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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Literature type: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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Studies in urban and social change
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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. |
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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. |