The Globalizing Cities Reader : txt
edited by Xuefei Ren and Roger Keil.
- Second edition.
- xxix, 481 p. ill. ; 24cm. book
- The Routledge urban reader series .
- Routledge urban reader series. .
Revised edition of The global cities reader, 2006.
Includes index.
Contents: List of Plates xv -- List of contributors xvii-- Acknowledgments xxi -- Editors’ introduction: from Global to Globalizing Cities xxiii -- PART 1 FOUNDATIONS 1 -- Introduction to Part One 3 -- 1 Prologue: “The metropolitan explosion” Peter Hall 7 -- 2 “Divisions of space and time in Europe” Fernand Braudel 9 -- 3 “World city formation: an agenda for research and action” John Friedman and Goetz Wolff 16 -- 4 “Locating cities on global circuits” Saskia Sassen 25 -- 5 “Urban specialization in the world system: an investigation of historical cases” Nestor P Rodriguez and Joe R Feagin 31 -- 6 “Accumulation and comparative urban systems” John Walton 41 -- 7 “The world system perspective and urbanization” Michael Timberlake 47 -- 8 “Global city formation in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles: Janet L Abu Lughod 53 -- 9 “Global and world cities: a view from off the map” Jennifer Robinson 60 -- 10 “Space in the globalizing city” Peter Marcuse 67 -- PART 2 PATHWAYS 75 -- Introduction to Part Two 77 -- 11 Prologue: Istanbul was our past, Istanbul is our future” Hamid Dabashi 81 -- 12 “The city as a landscape of power: London and New York as global financial capitals “Sharon Zukin 83 -- 13 “Detroit and Houston: two cities in global perspective” Richard Child Hill and Joe Feagin 90 -- 14 “The stimulus of a little confusion: a contemporary comparison of Amsterdam and Los Angeles” Edward W. Soja 98 -- 15 “Global city Zurich: paradigms of urban development” Christian Schmid 106 -- 16 “From ‘state owned’ to ‘City Inc’: the re territorialization of the state in Shanghai” Fulong Wu 116 -- 17 “The dream of Delhi as a global city” Veronique Dupont 123 -- 18 “’Fourth world’ cities in the global economy: the case of Phnom Penh, Cambodia” Gavin Shatkin 130 -- 19 “Medellín and Bogotá: the global cities of the other globalization” Eduardo Mendieta 137 -- PART 3 RELATIONS 143 -- Introduction to Part Three 145 -- 20 Prologue: “Specification of the world city network” Peter J. Taylor 147 -- 21 “Local and global: cities in network society” Manuel Castells 148 -- 22 “Comparing London and Frankfurt as world cities: a relational study of contemporary urban change” Jonathan V. Beaverstock, Michel Hoyler, Kathryn Pain, and Peter J. Taylor 154 -- 23 “Global grids of glass: on global cities, telecommunications and planetary urban networks” Stephen Graham 161 -- 24 “Global cities and the spread of infectious disease: the case of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in Toronto, Canada” S. Harris Ali and Roger Keil 169 -- 25 “Flying high (in the competitive sky): conceptualizing the role of airports in global city regions through ‘aero regionalism’” Jean Paul Addie 176 -- 26 “One package at a time: the distributive world city” Cynthia Negrey, Jeffery L. Osgood, and Frank Goetzkie 183 -- 27 “Global cities between biopolitics and necroppolitics: (in)security and circuits of knowledge in the glogal city network” David Murakami Wood 191 -- 28 “The virtual palimpsest of the global city network” Mark Graham 198 -- 29 “Relationality territoriality: toward conceptualization of city in the world” Eugene McCann and Kevin Ward 205 -- PART 4 REGULATIONS 211 -- Introduction to Part Four 213 -- 30 Prologue: “ The global city as world order” Warren Magnusson 219 -- 31 “ Globalization and the rise of city regions “ Allen J Scott 222 -- 32 “ Global cities, ‘glocal states’: global city formation and state territorial restructuring in contemporary Europe” Neil Brenner 228 -- 33 “ Global cities and developmental states: Tokyo and Seoul” Richard Child Hill and June Woo Kim 236 -- 34 “World city information on the Asia Pacific Rim: poverty, ‘everyday’ forms of civil society and environmental management” Mike Douglass 244 -- 35 “New globalism, new urbanism: gentrification as global urban strategy” Neil Smith 251 -- 36 “Between world history and state formation: new perspective on Africa’s cities” Laurent Fourchard 257 -- 37 “The ‘right to the city’: institutional imperatives of a developmental state” Susan Parnell and Edgar Pieterse 264 -- 38 “Global cities vs. ‘global cities’: rethinking contemporary urbanism as public ecology” Timothy W. Luke 270 -- PART 5 CONTESTATIONS 277 -- Introduction to Part Five 279 -- 39 Prologue: “From Tahrir Square to Emaar Square: Cairo’s private road to a private city” Mohamed Elshahed 283 -- 40 “Local actors in global politics” Saskia Sassen 285 -- 41 “The right to the city” David Harvey 290 -- 42 “Urban social movements in an era of globalization” 295 -- 43 “Sao Paulo: the city and its protest” Teresa Caldeira 302 -- 44 “Global city building in China and its discontents” Xuefei Ren 307 -- 45 “Between ghetto and globe: remaking urban life in Africa” AbdouMaliq Simone 313 -- 46 “World cities and union renewal” Steven Tufts 319 -- 47 “Blockupy fights back: global city formation in Frankfurt am Main after the financial crisis” Sebastian Schipper, Lucas Pohl, Tino Petzold, Daniel Mullis, and Bernd Belina” 325 -- PART 6 CULTURE 333 -- Introduction to Part Six 335 -- 48 Prologue: “High culture and hard labor” Andrew Ross 339 -- 49 “World cities: Global? Postcolonial Postimperial? Or just the result of happenstance? Some cultural comments” Anthony D. King 341 -- 50 “’Global media cities’: major nodes of globalizing culture and media industries” Stefan Krätke 348 -- 51 “Willing the global city: Berlin’s cultural strategies of interurban competition after 1989” Ute Lehrer 355 -- 52 “The transitional capitalist class and contemporary architecture in globalizing cities’’ Leslie Sklair 362 -- 53 “Shanghai nightscapes and ethnosexual contact zones” James Farrer and Andrew Field 368 -- 54 “Graffiti or street art? Negotiating the moral geographies of the creative city’’ Cameron McAuliffe 374 -- 55 “Spaces and networks or musical creativity in the city” Allan Watson, Michael Hoyler, and Christoph Mager 380 -- 56 “Provincializing the global city: from Bombay to Mumbai” Rashimi Varma 386 -- PART 7 FRONTIERS 391 -- Introduction to Part Seven 393 -- 57 Prologue: “World city” Doreen Massey 397 -- 58 “The global cities discourse: a return to the master narrative?” Michael Peter Smith 399 -- 59 “Provincializing the global city: from Bombay to Mumbai” Peter J. Taylor, Michael Hoyler, and Raf Verbruggen 407 -- 60 “Beyond the global city concept and the myth of ‘command and control’” Richard G. Smith 413 -- 61 “World cities under conditions of financialized globalization: towards an augmented world city hypothesis” David Bassens and Michiel van Meeteren 419 -- 62 “Can the straw man speak? An engagement with postcolonial critiques of ‘global cities research’” Michiel van Meeteren, Ben Derudder, and David Bassens 426 -- 63 “Global suburbanization” Roger Keil 433 -- 64 “What is urban about critical urban theory? Ananya Roy 441 -- 65 “Planetary urbanization” Neil Brenner and Christian Schmid 449 -- 66 “New geographies of theorizing the urban: putting comparison to work for global urban studies” Jennifer Robinson 453 -- 67 “Governing the informal in globalizing cities: comparing China, India and Brazil” Xuefei Ren 459 -- 68 “The urban revolution” Henri Lefebvre 465 -- Index 472 --
Plates: 1 Time Square, New York City 2 -- 2 Amsterdam historic canal 33 -- 3 The Shard, London, looming 35 -- 4 Industrial Age glory in Manchester 36 -- 5 One World Trade Center, New York 38 -- 6 Vintage skyscrapers, Chicago 55 -- 7 Bonaventure Hotel and its neighbors in downtown Los Angeles 56 -- 8 Istanbul Financial Center under construction 76 -- 9 Global city at street level, New York 85 -- 10 Urban redevelopment, Soho, London 87 -- 11 Model T in former Ford Piquette Avenue Plant, Detroit 92 -- 12 Packard Factory, Detroit 94 -- 13 Amsterdam 101 -- 14 Street scene, downtown Los Angeles 103 -- 15 Shanghai selfie in front of Pudong skyline across Huangpu River 119 -- 16 Billboard in 2010 during the Commonwealth Games, Delhi 125 -- 17 Gurgaon, Delhi 128 -- 18 Toronto aerotropolis 144 -- 19 Frankfurt skyline from south of the Main River 156 -- 20 London Metabolism 164 -- 21 Temperature screening post, Hong Kong Macau border 172 -- 22 Chicago aerotropolis 179 -- 23 Complexo do Alemao, Rio de Janeiro 179 -- 24 Luxury housing, Barrada Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro 193 -- 25 Hong Kong, Asia’s world city 196 -- 26 Johannesburg, a world class city 212 -- 27 Downtown Johannesburg 258 -- 28 Demolitions, Shanghai 262 -- 29 Sao Paulo 278 -- 30 A Starbucks at Xintiandi, Shanghai 304 -- 31 Street scene, downtown Johannesburg 310 -- 32 Trade union headquarters, London 315 -- 33 ECB headquarters 321 -- 34 Police in front of the ECB 329 -- 35 Police using tear gas 330 -- 36 Graffiti covered streets, Sao Paulo 334 -- 37 Shopping malls, Bangalore 344 -- 38 Construction of Potzdamer Platz 357 --
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