Writing The Global City

Author : Anthony D King
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-14
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317362715

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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 : Anthony D King
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 53,9 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 : Michael Hoyler,Christof Parnreiter,Allan Watson
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781785368950

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Global City Makers by Michael Hoyler,Christof Parnreiter,Allan Watson Pdf

Global City Makers provides an in-depth account of the role of powerful economic actors in making and un-making global cities. Engaging critically and constructively with global urban studies from a relational economic geography perspective, the book outlines a renewed agenda for global cities research. Focusing on financial services, management consultancy, real estate, commodity trading and maritime industries, the detailed studies in this volume are located across the globe to incorporate major world cities such as London, New York and Tokyo as well as globalizing cities including Mexico City, Hamburg and Mumbai.

Author : Klaus Segbers,Simon Raiser,Segbers,Krister Volkmann
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780801885150

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The Making of Global City Regions by Klaus Segbers,Simon Raiser,Segbers,Krister Volkmann Pdf

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Author : Robert Vipond
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 40,6 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 : Melanie U. Pooch
Publisher : Transcript Verlag, Roswitha Gost, Sigrid Nokel u. Dr. Karin Werner
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02
Category : American literature
ISBN : 3837635414

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DiverCity - Global Cities as a Literary Phenomenon by Melanie U. Pooch Pdf

This work examines global cities as a literary phenomenon, the "DiverCity," based on the reading of selected North American novels. By analyzing Dionne Brand's Toronto in What We All Long For, Chang-rae Lee's New York in Native Speaker, and Karen Tei Yamashita's Los Angeles in Tropic of Orange, Melanie U. Pooch provides the connecting link for exploring the triad of globalization and its effects, global cities as cultural nodal points, and cultural diversity in a globalizing age as a literary phenomenon.

Author : J. Edwards,R. Graulund
Publisher : Springer
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230294769

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Postcolonial Travel Writing by J. Edwards,R. Graulund Pdf

With its inclusion of original essays challenging the view of travel writing as a Eurocentric genre, this book will stand as a benchmark study of future inquiries in the field. It will revitalize the critical debate, sparking a much needed rethinking of a vibrant and highly popular but also volatile genre that has seen many changes in recent years.

Author : David A. McDonald
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135903367

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World City Syndrome by David A. McDonald Pdf

The literature on ‘world cities’ has had an enormous influence on urban theory and planning alike. From Manila to London, academics and policy makers have attempted to understand, and to some extent strive for, world city status. This book is a study of Cape Town’s standing in this network of urban centres, and an investigation of the conceptual appropriateness of this world city hypothesis. Drawing on more than a dozen years of fieldwork in Cape Town, McDonald provides an historical overview of institutional and structural reforms, examining fiscal imbalances, political marginalization, (de)racialization, privatization and other neoliberal changes. By examining and analyzes these reforms and changes, McDonald contributes the first radical critique of the world city literature from a developing country perspective.

Author : Taedong Lee
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317815600

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Global Cities and Climate Change by Taedong Lee Pdf

Cities have led the way to combat climate change by planning and implementing climate mitigation and adaptation policies. These local efforts go beyond national boundaries. Cities are forming transnational networks to enhance their understandings and practices for climate policies. In contrast to national governments that have numerous obstacles to cope with global climate change in the international and national level, cities have become significant international actors in the field of international relations and environmental governance. Global Cities and Climate Change examines the translocal relations of cities that have made an international effort to collectively tackle climate change. Compared to state-centric terms, international or trans-national relations, trans-local relations look at policies, politics, and interactions of local governments in the globalized world. Using multi-methods such as multi-level analysis, comparative case studies, regression analysis and network analysis, Taedong Lee illustrates why some cities participated in transnational climate networks for cities; under what conditions cities internationally cooperate with other cities, with which cities; and which factors influence climate policy performance. An essential read to all those who wish to understand the driving factors for local governments’ engagement in global climate governance from a theoretical as well as practical point of view. Lee makes a valuable contribution to the fields of international relations, environmental policies, and urban studies.

Author : Neil Brenner,Roger Keil
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0415323444

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The Global Cities Reader by Neil Brenner,Roger Keil Pdf

This book contains fifty selections from classic writings by authors such as John Friedmann, Michael Peter Smith, Saskia Sassen, Peter Taylor, Manuel Castells and Anthony King, as well as major contributions by other international scholars of global city formation.

Author : Allen J. Scott
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 53,7 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 : Michele Acuto
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781501759727

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How to Build a Global City by Michele Acuto Pdf

In How to Build a Global City, Michele Acuto considers the rise of a new generation of so-called global cities—Singapore, Sydney, and Dubai—and the power that this concept had in their ascent, in order to analyze the general relationship between global city theory and its urban public policy practice. The global city is often invoked in theory and practice as an ideal model of development and a logic of internationalization for cities the world over. But the global city also creates deep social polarization and challenges how much local planning can achieve in a world economy. Presenting a unique elite ethnography in Singapore, Sydney, and Dubai, Acuto discusses the global urban discourses, aspirations, and strategies vital to the planning and management of such metropolitan growth. The global city, he shows, is not one single idea, but a complex of ways to imagine a place to be global and aspirations to make it so, often deeply steeped in politics. His resulting book is a call to reconcile proponents and critics of the global city toward a more explicit engagement with the politics of this global urban imagination.

Author : Michel S Laguerre
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 54,6 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 : Carol Bailey
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781978829688

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Writing the Black Diasporic City in the Age of Globalization by Carol Bailey Pdf

Writing the Black Diasporic City in the Age of Globalization theorizes the city as a generative, “semicircular” social space, where the changes of globalization are most profoundly experienced. The fictive accounts analyzed here configure cities as spaces where movement is simultaneously restrictive and liberating, and where life prospects are at once promising and daunting. In their depictions of the urban experiences of peoples of African descent, writers and other creative artists offer a complex set of renditions of twentieth- and twenty-first-century Black urban citizens’ experience in European or Euro-dominated cities such as Boston, London, New York, and Toronto, as well as Global South cities such as Accra, Kingston, and Lagos—that emerged out of colonial domination, and which have emerged as hubs of current globalization. Writing the Black Diasporic City draws on critical tools of classical postcolonial studies as well as those of globalization studies to read works by Ama Ata Aidoo, Amma Darko, Marlon James, Cecil Foster, Zadie Smith, Michael Thomas, Chika Unigwe, and other contemporary writers. The book also engages the television series Call the Midwife, the Canada carnival celebration Caribana, and the film series Small Axe to show how cities are characterized as open, complicated spaces that are constantly shifting. Cities collapse boundaries, allowing for both haunting and healing, and they can sever the connection from kin and community, or create new connections.

Author : Christoph Senft
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004277007

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Contemporary Indian Writing in English between Global Fiction and Transmodern Historiography by Christoph Senft Pdf

Christoph Senft provides a set of re-readings of contemporary Indian narrative texts as decolonial and pluralistic approaches to the past and thus offers a comprehensive overview of the subcontinent’s literary landscape in the 21st century.