Global Port Cities In North America

Author : Boris Vormann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317577133

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Global Port Cities in North America by Boris Vormann Pdf

As the material anchors of globalization, North America’s global port cities channel flows of commodities, capital, and tourists. This book explores how economic globalization processes have shaped these cities' political institutions, social structures, and urban identities since the mid-1970s. Although the impacts of financialization on global cities have been widely discussed, it is curious that how the global integration of commodity chains actually happens spatially — creating a quantitatively new, global organization of production, distribution, and consumption processes — remains understudied. The book uses New York City, Los Angeles, Vancouver, and Montreal as case studies of how once-redundant spaces have been reorganized, and crucially, reinterpreted, so as to accommodate new flows of goods and people — and how, in these processes, social, environmental, and security costs of global production networks have been shifted to the public.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264205277

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The Competitiveness of Global Port-Cities by OECD Pdf

Ports and cities are historically strongly linked, but the link between port and city growth has become weaker. This book examines how ports can regain their role as drivers of urban economic growth and how negative port impacts can be mitigated.

Author : Jacob Steere-Williams,Blake C. Scott
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781643364575

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Port Cities of the Atlantic World by Jacob Steere-Williams,Blake C. Scott Pdf

Traces the maritime routes and the historical networks that link port cities around the Atlantic world Port Cities of the Atlantic World brings together a collection of essays that examine the centuries-long transatlantic transportation of people, goods, and ideas with a focus on the impact of that trade on what would become the American South. Employing a wide temporal range and broad geographic scope, the scholars contributing to this volume call for a sea-facing history of the South, one that connects that terrestrial region to this expansive maritime history. By bringing the study up to the 20th century in the collection's final section, the editors Jacob Steere-Williams and Blake C. Scott make the case for the lasting influence of these port cities—and Atlantic world history—on the economy, society, and culture of the contemporary South.

Author : James Jixian Wang
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0754670546

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Ports, Cities, and Global Supply Chains by James Jixian Wang Pdf

Global trends in policy and technology related fields are rapidly reshaping the port industry worldwide. International in scope, this volume applies concepts of strategic management, supply chain management, port and transport economics and economic and t

Author : A. Mah
Publisher : Springer
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137283146

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Port Cities and Global Legacies by A. Mah Pdf

Port cities have distinctive global dynamics, with long histories of casual labour, large migrant communities, and international trade networks. This in-depth comparative study examines contradictory global legacies across themes of urban identity, waterfront work and radicalism in key post-industrial port cities worldwide.

Author : Franklin W. Knight,Peggy K. Liss
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0870496573

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Atlantic Port Cities by Franklin W. Knight,Peggy K. Liss Pdf

Author : Carola Hein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Globalization
ISBN : 0415780438

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Port Cities by Carola Hein Pdf

Scholars from multiple disciplines explore similarities, dissimilarities and the ways in which sea-based networking influences urban landscapes and architecture, socio-economic and cultural development from the 19th to the 21st centuries.

Author : Angela Carpenter,Rodrigo Lozano
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030364649

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European Port Cities in Transition by Angela Carpenter,Rodrigo Lozano Pdf

Seaports, as part of urban centers, play a major role in the cultural, social and economic life of the cities in which they are located, and through the links they provide to the outside world. Port-cities in Europe have faced significant change, first with the loss of heavy industry, emergence of Eastern European democracies, and the widening of the European Community (now European Union) during the second half of the twentieth century, and more recently through drivers to change including the global Sustainable Development Agenda and the European Union Circular Economy Agenda. This book examines the role of modern seaports in Europe and consider how port-cities are responding to these major drivers for change. It discusses the broad issues facing European Sea Ports, including port life cycles, spatial planning, and societal integration. May 2019 saw the 200th anniversary of the first steam ship to cross the Atlantic between the US and England, and it is just over 60 years since the invention of the modern intermodal shipping container – both drivers of change in the maritime and ports industry. Increasing movements of people, e.g. through low cost cruises to port cities, can play a major role in changing the nature of such a city and impact on the lives of the people living there. This book brings together original research by both long-standing and younger scholars from multiple disciplines and builds upon the wider discourse about sea ports, port cities, and sustainability.

Author : James Jixian Wang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317077749

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Port-City Interplays in China by James Jixian Wang Pdf

China has progressed dramatically since 1978 when the country started its economic reforms and opened up to the world economy. It took only three decades for China to develop from a closed, centrally planned economy with little sea-borne trade into the world's second largest economy with the largest container shipment volume in the world. The major coastal cities have been gateways linking China with the world and have experienced rapid urbanization and port growth. How has such port growth been speeded up and realized under strong state control and intervention? How have ports and their cities affected each other? What lessons can China’s port-cities learn from other countries, regions and cities? What will be the next stage of port-city interplays in China in this globalizing era? Answering these questions from a geographical perspective, James Wang looks into four sets of port-city relations in China: Economic and functional relations between port and city; port-city spatial relations; external network relations of cities through ports; and port-city governance. These relations formulate a conceptual framework which is used to interpret port-city interplays in individual ports and cities but also in multi-port regions such as the Pearl River Delta. Based on the author’s own research and investigations into more than 25 port cities in China over the past 18 years, this book provides vivid stories about China and challenge existing theories on port development.

Author : Mina Akhavan
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030525781

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Port Geography and Hinterland Development Dynamics by Mina Akhavan Pdf

This book illustrates and discusses the main characteristics of port-city development dynamics with a focus on the fast-growing city-states of the Middle East, which are emerging as key players in logistics and the global supply chain. Maritime ports and the cities hosting them have long fascinated scholars – geographers, economists, architects, urban planners, sociologists etc. – as they become centres of exchange where different social and urban environments meet, at the intersection between land and sea. Given that the current body of literature on the topic is biased – mainly concerning the Western world and East Asian region – with mono-disciplinary tendencies, this book outlines a theoretical basis from a wide range of literature, linking port-city studies, globalization theories and logistics, and adopts a multidisciplinary perspective. The main target audience of the book includes scholars and graduate students in urban studies, spatial planning, urban and regional economics, logistics, geography and transport geography with an interest in studying port geography and the port-city interface, port infrastructure development and port hinterland dynamics; it will also benefit policymakers and urban planners whose work involves these topics.

Author : Cordell Hull
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1935
Category : Harbors
ISBN : MINN:31951D03562138T

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Port Cities in Our International Relations by Cordell Hull Pdf

Author : John Darwin
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780141992808

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Unlocking the World by John Darwin Pdf

From the acclaimed historian of global empire, the dramatic story of how steam power reshaped our cities and our seas, and forged a new world order Steam power transformed our world, initiating the complex, resource-devouring industrial system the consequences of which we live with today. It revolutionized work and production, but also the ease and cost of movement over land and water. The result was to throw open vast areas of the world to the rampaging expansion of Europeans and Americans on a scale previously unimaginable. Unlocking the World is the captivating history of the great port cities which emerged as the bridgeheads of this new steam-driven economy, reshaping not just the trade and industry of the regions around them but their culture and politics as well. They were the agents of what we now call 'globalization', but their impact and influence, and the reactions they provoked, were far from predictable. Nor were they immune to the great upheavals in world politics across the 'steam century'. This book is global history at its very best. Packed with fascinating case histories (from New Orleans to Montreal, Bombay to Singapore, Calcutta to Shanghai), individual stories and original ideas, Darwin's book allows us, for better or worse, to see the modern age taking shape.

Author : Jeremy Land
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004542709

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Colonial Ports, Global Trade, and the Roots of the American Revolution (1700 — 1776) by Jeremy Land Pdf

This book takes a long-run view of the global maritime trade of Boston, New York, and Philadelphia from 1700 to American Independence in 1776. Land argues that the three cities developed large, global networks of maritime commerce and exchange that created tension between merchants and the British Empire which sought to enforce mercantilist policies to constrain American trade to within the British Empire. Colonial merchants created and then expanded their mercantile networks well beyond the confines of the British Empire. This trans-imperial trade (often considered smuggling by British authorities) formed the roots of what became known as the American Revolution.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Steamboat lines
ISBN : STANFORD:36105211468710

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Ford's International Cruise Guide by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556025469230

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Megainfrastructure Systems Linking Cities and Regions to the Global Economy by Anonim Pdf