Beyond The Global City

Author : Gordon Nelson
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780773587427

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Beyond the Global City by Gordon Nelson Pdf

Policies promoting Toronto as a global city and provincial economic engine have been seen as beneficial to the development of all of Ontario, yet much of the province has borne significant environmental, social, economic, and political costs as a result of one city's growth. Contributors to this volume call for a radical re-imagining of public policy at local, provincial, and federal levels, that accounts for Ontario's overlooked regions. Beyond the Global City presents a kaleidoscopic view of the province - the rich fields and small towns of the southwest, the productive agricultural lands of rural Huron County, historic Kingston and the Upper St Lawrence, the social and cultural diversity of the Ottawa valley, the near mythical woodlands and waters of Muskoka and Georgian Bay, and the heavily exploited coasts and waters of the Great Lakes - to provide a deeper understanding of its various communities. In a series of regional studies, contributors describe each area's distinctive qualities and challenges and offer recommendations about what is needed to move them forward in a more equitable and sustainable way. Two initial historical chapters lay the framework for the regional discussions, while cross-cutting and integrated chapters analyze the state of natural and cultural heritage and current development theory provincially, offering guidance for the future.

Author : John Eade
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2003-10-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134772414

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Living the Global City by John Eade Pdf

Politicians and academics alike have made globalization the key reference point for interpreting the 1990s. For many, globalization threatens both community and the nation-state. It appears to represent forces beyond human control. Living the Global City documents globalization's impact on everyday lives by drawing on research rather than rhetoric and arrives at a very different perspective. Living the Global City offers an analysis of globalization and global/local processes by focussing on specific issues and themes which include community, culture, milieu, socioscapes and sociospheres, microglobalization, poverty, ethnic identity and carnival. By advancing the debates which surround these issues through a redefinition of the terms in which they have been developed and engagement with the everyday lives of people in a global city, this book reveals how such key concepts as community, culture, class, poverty and identity can be reconceptualized in the context of global/local processes.

Author : Kristin Ljungkvist
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317438700

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The Global City 2.0 by Kristin Ljungkvist Pdf

Global cities all over the world are taking on new roles as they increasingly participate directly and independently in international affairs and global politics. So far, surprisingly few studies have analyzed the role of the Global City beyond its already well explicated role in the globalized economy. How is it that local governments of Global Cities claim international political authority and develop what appears to be their own independent foreign and security policies despite the fact that such policy areas have traditionally been considered to be the core function of nation-states and central governments? What does it mean to be and to govern the contemporary Global City? In this book Kristin Ljungkvist claims that we can better understand why local governments find it to be in their Global City’s interest to claim international political authority by exploring how the city’s role in the globalized world is constructed and narrated locally. A core claim is that Global City-hood as a specific type of collective identity can play a constitutive part in such interest formation. Combining insights from International Relations and Urban Studies scholarship, and with the help of a case study on New York City, Ljungkvist develops a new analytical framework for studying the Global City as an international political actor. The Global City 2.0 shows that even as the Global City engages in various global issues such as global environmental governance or counterterrorism, such pursuit will be framed and rationalized in terms of the city’s economic growth. The quest for growth and global competitiveness are not necessarily the only available meanings attached to the being and governing of the contemporary Global City. However, there seems to be a remarkable persistency and attraction in economistic ideas and an economistic conception of the Global City.

Author : Deborah Cowen,Alexis Mitchell,Emily Paradis,Brett Story
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780774862400

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Digital Lives in the Global City by Deborah Cowen,Alexis Mitchell,Emily Paradis,Brett Story Pdf

Digital technologies have transformed how, where, and when we communicate, love, learn, produce, and consume. Digital Lives in the Global City examines the entanglements of urban life as digital infrastructures connect us across vast distances while also merging work with personal time and space, increasing the power of financial institutions, and enhancing state and corporate surveillance capacities. This nuanced exploration engages with a wide range of issues: the conditions of migrant work in Singapore, the question of digital debt in Toronto, the rise and fall of illegal buildings in Mumbai, and targeted policing in New York. In the process, it reveals the profound connections between digital technologies and the social life of global cities.

Author : Josef Gugler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2004-10-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521536855

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World Cities Beyond the West by Josef Gugler Pdf

This study was the first systematically to cover those cities beyond the core that most clearly can be considered world cities: Bangkok, Cairo, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Johannesburg, Mexico City, Moscow, Mumbai, Sao Paulo, Seoul, Shanghai, and Singapore. Fourteen leading authorities from diverse backgrounds bring their expertise to bear on these cities across four continents and consider the major regional and global roles they play in economic, political, and cultural life. Conveying how these cities have followed various pathways to their present position, they offer multiple perspectives on the interplay of internal and external forces and demonstrate that any comprehensive discussion of world cities has to engage a multiplicity of perspectives. With an introduction by Josef Gugler and an afterword from Saskia Sassen, this substantial volume makes a major contribution to the world cities literature and provides an important impetus for further analysis.

Author : Anthony D King
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317504177

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Global Cities (Routledge Library Editions: Economic Geography) by Anthony D King Pdf

Since the late 1970s the role of key world cities such as Los Angeles, New York and London as centres of global control and co-ordination has come under increasing scrutiny. This book provides an overview and critique of work on the global context of metropolitan growth, world city formation and the theory it has generated. Suggesting ‘post-imperialism’ as the most appropriate framework for analysis, the author demonstrates the extent to which urban and regional development, both in Britain and elsewhere, were linked to a colonial mode of production, and highlights the effects of its disappearance. Against this background, the author charts the transformation of London from imperial capital in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to world city in the capitalist world economy of today.

Author : Allen J. Scott
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2001-01-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780191589416

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Global City-Regions by Allen J. Scott Pdf

There are now more than three hundred city-regions around the world with populations greater than one million. These city-regions are expanding vigorously, and they present many new and deep challenges to researchers and policy-makers in both the more developed and less developed parts of the world. The processes of global economic integration and accelerated urban growth make traditional planning and policy strategies in these regions increasingly inadequate, while more effective approaches remain largely in various stages of hypothesis and experimentation. 'Global City-Regions' represents a multifaceted effort to deal with the many different issues raised by these developments. It seeks at once to define the question of global city-regions and to describe the internal and external dynamics that shape them; it proposes a theorization of global city-regions based on their economic and political responses to intensifying levels of globalization; and it offers a number of policy insights into the severe social problems that confront global city-regions as they come face to face with an economically and politically neoliberal world. At a moment when globalization is increasingly subject to critical scrutiny in many different quarters, this book provides a timely overview of its effects on urban and regional development, one of its most important (but perhaps least understood) corollaries. The book also offers a series of nuanced visions of alternative possible futures.

Author : Shail Mayaram
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135851491

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The Other Global City by Shail Mayaram Pdf

What is a Global City? Who authorizes the World Class City? This edited volume interrogates the "global cities" literature, which views the city as a shimmering, financial "global network." Through a historical-ethnographic exploration of inter-ethnic relations in the "other global" cities of Cairo, Beirut, Istanbul, Bukhara, Lhasa, Delhi, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and Tokyo, the well-known contributors highlight cartographies of the Other Global City. The volume contends that thinking about the city in the longue duree and as part of a topography of interconnected regions contests both imperial and nationalist ways of reading cities that have occasioned the many and particularly violent territorial partitions in Asia and the world.

Author : Michel S Laguerre
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780472131655

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Global City-Twinning in the Digital Age by Michel S Laguerre Pdf

Author : Anthony D King
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-14
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317362722

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Writing the Global City by Anthony D King Pdf

Over the last three decades, our understanding of the city worldwide has been revolutionized by three innovative theoretical concepts – globalisation, postcolonialism and a radically contested notion of modernity. The idea and even the reality of the city has been extended out of the state and nation and re-positioned in the larger global world. In this book Anthony King brings together key essays written over this period, much of it dominated by debates about the world or global city. Challenging assumptions and silences behind these debates, King provides largely ignored historical and cultural dimensions to the understanding of world city formation as well as decline. Interdisciplinary and comparative, the essays address new ways of framing contemporary themes: the imperial and colonial origin of contemporary world and global cities, actually existing postcolonialisms, claims about urban and cultural homogenisation and the role of architecture and built environment in that process. Also addressed are arguments about indigenous and exogenous perspectives, Eurocentricism, ways of framing vernacular architecture, and the global historical sociology of building types. Wide-ranging and accessible, Writing the Global City provides essential historical contexts and theoretical frameworks for understanding contemporary urban and architectural debates. Extensive bibliographies will make it essential for teaching, reference and research.

Author : Philipp Strobl Andreas Exenberger (Günter Bischof, James Mokhiber (dir.).)
Publisher : innsbruck University Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783903122239

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Globalization and the City by Philipp Strobl Andreas Exenberger (Günter Bischof, James Mokhiber (dir.).) Pdf

The world today is far less a global village than a “global city”, as global network of multidimensional urban spaces of congestion prominently forming – and also formed by – globalization. But the relevance of cities is nothing but new. They were essential for culture and civilization worldwide, they allowed a centralization of power and knowledge and they were crucial for the division of labor and for the organization of mass demand. Further, as places of intense and continuous interactions, cities are the locations par excellence for global history to take place. Thus, there is a need to study the history of cities in connection with the history of globalization from this perspective. This book is dedicated to contribute to the still underdeveloped but growing literature connecting the history of cities worldwide and their relation to global processes. The authors do so from various disciplinary backgrounds and by referring to different times and places. We visit ancient Alexandria, nineteenth century Zanzibar, and modern-day São Paolo, among others, and we view these cities not only in their globality, but also through their heritage, their economic relevance, their architecture, or financial flows connecting them. Further, the book also contains systematic considerations about “global city”, especially the general role of cities in development, cities in global history teaching, and cities' relationships to global commodity chains.

Author : Saskia Sassen
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781400847488

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The Global City by Saskia Sassen Pdf

This classic work chronicles how New York, London, and Tokyo became command centers for the global economy and in the process underwent a series of massive and parallel changes. What distinguishes Sassen's theoretical framework is the emphasis on the formation of cross-border dynamics through which these cities and the growing number of other global cities begin to form strategic transnational networks. All the core data in this new edition have been updated, while the preface and epilogue discuss the relevant trends in globalization since the book originally came out in 1991.

Author : Robert Vipond
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781442624436

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Making a Global City by Robert Vipond Pdf

Half of Toronto’s population is born outside of Canada and over 140 languages are spoken on the city's streets and in its homes. How to build community amidst such diversity is one of the global challenges that Canada – and many other western nations – has to face head on. Making a Global City critically examines the themes of diversity and community in a single primary school, the Clinton Street Public School in Toronto, between 1920 and 1990. From the swift and seismic shift from a Jewish to southern European demographic in the 1950s to the gradual globalized community starting in the 1970s, Vipond eloquently and clearly highlights the challenges posed by multicultural citizenship in a city that was dominated by Anglo-Protestants. Contrary to recent well-documented anti-immigrant rhetoric in the media, Making a Global City celebrates one of the world’s most multicultural cities while stressing the fact that public schools are a vital tool in integrating and accepting immigrants and children in liberal democracies.

Author : Simon Curtis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780198744016

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Global Cities and Global Order by Simon Curtis Pdf

The re-emergence of the city from the long shadow of the state in the late-twentieth century was facilitated by the state itself. The unprecedented size and scale of today's global cities and mega cities owe their conditions of possibility to a fundamental shift in the character of political order at the level of the international system. This book argues that we must understand the rise of the global city as part of a wider process of the transformation of international political order, and of the character of international society. Global cities are an inscription of the ideals of a market society in space, constructed and defended at the level of international society. They embody the ascendance of a set of liberal principles at a certain moment in history - a moment related to the hegemonic status of leading states in the second half of the twentieth century, and the ability of those states to shape international norms. But the evolution of these urban forms has also reflected the tendency for deregulated markets to generate inequality and polarisation: these features are also inscribed in the spaces of global cities. Global cities focus and amplify the tensions and contradictions within the contemporary international system, and become key strategic sites for struggles over social justice and the character of political life in the twenty-first century. Global Cities and Global Order demonstrates the significance of the re-emergence of cities from the long shadow of the nation-state is far-reaching. Only by examining the mechanisms by which cities have become empowered in the last few decades can we understand their new functions and capabilities in global politics.

Author : Judith Weisz Woodsworth
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05
Category : Cities and towns in literature
ISBN : 1032079371

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Translation and the Global City by Judith Weisz Woodsworth Pdf

INTRODUCTION: Translational Spaces and the Bridges that Span Them / Judith Weisz Woodsworth -- (Re)claiming Space: Translational Landscapes in Canada. The Jews of Montreal: At the Crossroads of Languages and Translation / Pierre Anctil -- Translating the American Counterculture in/for Quebec / Carmen Ruschiensky -- An Ultraminor Literature: English Writing in Montreal / Marie Leconte -- Indigenous Peoples-Settler Relations and Language Politics in 21st Century Canada / Daniel Salée and Salma El Hankouri -- Bridges and Barriers: Narratives of Liminality In and Beyond World Cities. Literary Translation in Southern Brazil: Livraria Americana's Almanak / Juliana Steil -- In the Shadow of the Cathedral: The Linguistic Landscape of Antwerp / Anaïs De Vierman -- Activist Translation in the World of Food / Violette Marcelin -- Bridging Difference: Self, Sexuality and Gender in Hanan al-Shaykh's Only in London / Clayton McKee -- Going Global: Translating the Slang of the Paris Banlieue / Tiffane Levick -- Your Language Escapes Me! Multimodality of a Migrant Life / Nafiseh Mousavi -- EPILOGUE. Polyglot Pathways: Mount Royal and its Languages / Sherry Simon.