Peasants go to New York
New York, China, Chine, immigration, migrant, migration urbaine, global city, ville globale, Song Ping, capitalisme, travail
<div><b>Song Ping </b>is a Professor of Anthropology at Xiamen University, China.</div>
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Song Ping
23 March 2010
http://www.ari.nus.edu.sg/publication_details.asp?pubtypeid=AU&pubid=1632
Food and public space in a global city
food, nourriture, alimentation, agriculture urbaine, espace urbain, aménagement de l'espace, jardin, ville globale, global city, London, Londres, ville durable, Parks Rosie, Steel Carolyn, Smyth Paul, Caraher Martin, Reynolds Ben
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The colloquium will be focused on one particular city – London – and will bring together the themes of food growing, ‘public’ space and the city to explore thought-provoking questions around food equity, access to public and semi-private space, and the ability of different socio-economic groups to establish their own interests in city planning and construction processes that have consequences for private and community-based food production and distribution (e.g. the provision and retention of community food growing spaces, the creation of productive and educative school grounds, the provision of housing with growing and food preparation spaces). The issue of food, food production and public spaces in cities is currently high on the political agenda. While urban agriculture has a long history, contemporary concerns over the environmental impacts of ‘food miles’ and our industrialised countryside, food security issues, together with growing recognition of the health, social and community benefits of gardening, are driving the issue of local urban food production up the political agenda. With waiting lists for allotments in Camden, for example, currently stretching to an estimated 40 years, and with the nation’s front gardens disappearing under tarmac car parking, attention is turning to the food growing potential of a multitude of overlooked and undervalued city sites.</div>
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<b>Sessions :</b></div>
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Rosie Parks - Introduction</div>
Carolyn Steel - Citopia : Thinking through food</div>
Paul Smyth - An urban farming experiment</div>
Martin Caraher - Food and urban space</div>
Ben Reynolds - Sustainable food matters</div>
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Rosie Parks,
Carolyn Steel,
Paul Smyth,
Martin Caraher,
Ben Reynolds
21 May 2011
http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2011/05/food-and-public-space-in-a-global-city/
Globopolis versus cosmopolis : Alternative paradigms for livable cities in Asia
, dynamiques urbaines, gouvernance, participation, néolibéralisme, mondialisation, cosmopolitisme, espace urbain, privatisation, ville globale, global city, urbanité, Asia, Asie, Douglass Mike
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From the late 1980s the production of urban space in Asia has been proceeding under historically new dynamics that are rapidly transforming city life. One dimension of these dynamics is the emergence of a middle class that is pushing for political reform and greater participation in urban governance. At the same time, in an ascendant neoliberal policy era of diminishing scope for public policy, intensifying inter-city competition for global investment and status is turning the economy and political orientation of the city outward toward global accumulation and private management of urban space. As these dynamics interplay, a contest is emerging between two contrasting visions of the urban future. One is the idea of the city as an inclusive cosmopolis actively accommodating diversity and local production of urban space. The other is one of an extroverted globopolis of homogeneous spaces of consumption designed to protect those who are able to access them from the “chaos” of the city of the less wealthy and the poor. While democratization and the rise of civil society provide openings for more cosmopolitan outcomes, fragmentation of the city through mega-projects privatizing urban spaces on very large scales is steering the city toward a globopolis composed of zones of exclusion. The future of cities will depend on how the balance is struck between these two visions of a livable city.</div>
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<b>Mike Douglass </b>is Professor and former Chair of the Department of Urban and Regional Planning and Executive Director of the Globalization Research Center at the University of Hawai'i.</div>
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Mike Douglass
15 June 2010
http://www.ari.nus.edu.sg/publication_details.asp?pubtypeid=AU&pubid=1837
Branding cities: Cosmopolitanism, parochialism, and social change
city branding, marketing, cosmopolitisme, culture urbaine, tourisme, économie, planification, ville globale, global city, film, mémoire, Donald Stephanie, Kofman Eleonore, Kevin Catherine
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Routledge
February 2012
192
Ouvrage
International handbook of globalization and world cities
world city, ville mondiale, global city, ville globale, mondialisation, réseaux, Derudder Ben, Hoyler Michael, Taylor Peter J., Witlox Frank
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher:</b></div> </div> This Handbook offers an unrivalled overview of current research into how globalization is affecting the external relations and internal structures of major cities in the world.<br /> <br /> By treating cities at a global scale, it focuses on the ‘stretching’ of urban functions beyond specific place locations, without losing sight of the multiple divisions in contemporary world cities. The book firmly bases city networks in their historical context, critically discusses contemporary concepts and key empirical measures, and analyses major issues relating to world city infrastructures, economies, governance and divisions. The variety of urban outcomes in contemporary globalization is explored through detailed case studies.<br /> <br /> Edited by leading scholars of the Globalization and World Cities (GaWC) Research Network and written by over 60 experts in the field, the Handbook is a unique resource for students, researchers and academics in urban and globalization studies as well as for city professionals in planning and policy.</div> </div> <b>Ben Derudder </b>is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Ghent and Associate Director of the Globalization and World Cities research network.</div> <b>Michael Hoyler </b>is Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at Loughborough University and the Associate Director of GaWC.</div> <b>Peter J. Taylor </b>is Emeritus Professor of Geography at Loughborough University and Director of GaWC.</div> <b>Frank Witlox </b>is Professor of Economic Geography at the University of Ghent and Associate Director of GaWC.</div> </div>
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Edward Elgar
December 2011
584
Ouvrage
Worlding cities : Asian experiments and the art of being global
Asie, Asia, culture urbaine, développement urbain, politique urbaine, urbanisation, ville mondiale, world city, ville globale, global city, forme urbaine, Roy Ananya, Ong Aihwa
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher : </b></div> </div> Worlding Cities is the first serious examination of Asian urbanism to highlight the connections between different Asian models and practices of urbanization. It includes important contributions from a respected group of scholars across a range of generations, disciplines, and sites of study.<br /> <br /> - Describes the new theoretical framework of ‘worlding’<br /> - Substantially expands and updates the themes of capital and culture<br /> - Includes a unique collection of authors across generations, disciplines, and sites of study<br /> - Demonstrates how references to Asian power, success, and hegemony make possible urban development and limit urban politics</div> </div> <b>Contents :</b></div> </div> Preface</div> Aihwa Ong - Introduction : Worlding cities, or the art of being global<br /> <br /> Part I Modeling<br /> Chua Ben - Singapore as model : Planning innovations, knowledge experts</div> Lisa Hoffman - Urban modeling and contemporary technologies of city-building in China : The production of regimes of green urbanisms</div> Gavin Shatking - Planning privatopolis : Representation and contestation in the development of urban integrated mega-projects</div> </div> Part II Inter-referencing</div> Helen F. Siu - Retuning a provincialized middle class in Asia's urban postmodern : The case of Hong Kong</div> Chad Haines - Cracks in the façade : Landscapes of hope and desire in Dubai</div> Glen Lowry and Eugene McCann - Asia in the mix : Urban form and global mobilities - Hong Kong, Vancouver, Dubai</div> Aihwa Ong - Hyperbuilding : Spectacle, speculation, and the hyperspace of sovereignty</div> </div> Part III New solidarities</div> Michael Goldman - Speculating on the next world city</div> Ananya Roy - The blockade of the world-class city : Dialectical images of Indian urbanism</div> D. Asher Ghertner - Rule by aesthetics : World-class city making in Delhi</div> Ananya Roy - Conclusion : Postcolonial urbanism : Speed, hysteria, mass dreams</div> </div> <b>Ananya Roy </b>is Professor of City and Regional Planning and Co-Director of Global Metropolitan Studies at the University of California, Berkeley</div> <b>Aihwa Ong </b>is Professor of Socio-cultural Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley</div> </div>
Ananya Roy Aihwa Ong
Wiley-Blackwell
July 2011
376
Ouvrage
Cape Town after apartheid : Crime and governance in the divided city
, délinquance, gouvernance, ségrégation urbaine, inégalité, inequality, sécurité, renouvellement urbain, néolibéralisme, pauvreté, développement urbain, apartheid, Cape Town, Le Cap, mondialisation, global city, ville mondiale, Samara Tony Roshan
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher : </b></div> </div> Reveals how liberal democracy and free-market economics reproduce the inequalities of apartheid in Cape Town, South Africa<br /> <br /> Nearly two decades after the dismantling of apartheid in South Africa, how different does the nation look? In Cape Town, is hardening inequality under conditions of neoliberal globalization actually reproducing the repressive governance of the apartheid era? By exploring issues of urban security and development, Tony Roshan Samara brings to light the features of urban apartheid that increasingly mark not only Cape Town but also the global cities of our day—cities as diverse as Los Angeles, Rio de Janeiro, Paris, and Beijing.<br /> <br /> Cape Town after Apartheid focuses on urban renewal and urban security policies and practices in the city center and townships as this aspiring world-class city actively pursues a neoliberal approach to development. The city’s attempt to escape its past is, however, constrained by crippling inequalities, racial and ethnic tensions, political turmoil, and persistent insecurity. Samara shows how governance in Cape Town remains rooted in the perceived need to control dangerous populations and protect a somewhat fragile and unpopular economic system. In urban areas around the world, where the affluent minority and poor majority live in relative proximity to each other, aggressive security practices and strict governance reflect and reproduce the divided city.<br /> <br /> A critical case for understanding a transnational view of urban governance, especially in highly unequal, majority-poor cities, this closely observed study of postapartheid Cape Town affords valuable insight into how security and governance technologies from the global North combine with local forms to create new approaches to social control in cities across the global South.</div> </div>
Tony Roshan Samara
University of Minnesota Press
June 2011
272
Ouvrage
City of extremes : The spatial politics of Johannesburg
Johannesburg, aménagement de l'espace, gated communities, exclusion, ségrégation résidentielle, ségrégation urbaine, ségrégation sociale, analyse spatiale, global city, ville globale, Murray Martin J.
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher : </b></div> </div> City of Extremes is a powerful critique of urban development in greater Johannesburg since the end of apartheid in 1994. Martin J. Murray describes how a loose alliance of city builders—including real estate developers, large-scale property owners, municipal officials, and security specialists—has sought to remake Johannesburg in the upbeat image of a world-class city. By creating new sites of sequestered luxury catering to the comfort, safety, and security of affluent urban residents, they have produced a new spatial dynamic of social exclusion, effectively barricading the mostly black urban poor from full participation in the mainstream of urban life. This partitioning of the cityscape is enabled by an urban planning environment of limited regulation or intervention into the prerogatives of real estate capital.<br /> <br /> Combining insights from urban studies, cultural geography, and urban sociology with extensive research in South Africa, Murray reflects on the implications of Johannesburg’s dual character as a city of fortified enclaves that proudly displays the ostentatious symbols of global integration and the celebrated “enterprise culture” of neoliberal design, and as the “miasmal city” composed of residual, peripheral, and stigmatized zones characterized by signs of a new kind of marginality. He suggests that the “global cities” paradigm is inadequate to understanding the historical specificity of cities in the Global South, including the colonial mining town turned postcolonial megacity of Johannesburg.</div> </div> <b>Martin J. Murray </b>is Professor of Urban Planning at the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning and Adjunct Professor at the Center for African and African-American Studies at the University of Michigan.</div> </div>
Martin J. Murray
Duke University Press
2011
464
Ouvrage
Global urban analysis : A survey of cities in globalization
global city, ville mondiale, mondialisation, économie, Taylor Peter J.
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Global Urban Analysis provides a unique insight into the contemporary world economy through a focus on cities. It is based upon a large-scale customised data collection on how leading businesses use cities across the world: as headquarter locations, for finance, for professional and creative services, for media. These data - involving up to 2000 firms and over 500 cities - provide evidence for both how the leading cities, sometimes called global cities, are coming to dominate the world economy, and how hundreds of other cities are faring in this brave new urban world. Thus can the likes of London, New York and Hong Kong be tracked as well as Manchester, Cleveland and Guangzhou, and even Plymouth, Chattanooga and Xi'an. Cities are assessed and ranked in terms of their importance for various functions such as for financial services, legal services and advertising, plus novel findings are reported for the geographical orientations of their connections.<br />
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This is truly a comprehensive survey of cities in globalization covering global, world-regional, and national scales of analysis:<br />
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- 4 key chapters outline the global structure of the world economy featuring the leading cities;<br />
- 9 regional chapters covering the whole world also feature the level of services provided by 'medium' cities;<br />
- 22 chapters on selected countries and sub-regions indicate global-ness and local-ness and feature an even wider range of cities.<br />
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Written in an easy to understand style, this book is a must read for anybody interested in their own city in the world and how it relates to other cities.</div>
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<b>Peter J. Taylor</b> is Professor of Geography and Environmental Management at Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK, and Director of the Globalization and World Cities (GaWC) Research Network.</div>
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NC
Earthscan
October 2010
300
Ouvrage
World cities and climate change
, changement climatique, développement durable, ville durable, planification, gouvernance, écologie urbaine, infrastructures, politique urbaine, global city, ville mondiale
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Relationships between cities and energy, water, waste and transport networks are changing. World Cities and Climate Change argues that this is not something that is happening naturally but is the product of social, economic, political and spatial processes and that these changes have profound implications for the shape of contemporary and future cities.<br />
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Drawing on research and examples from London, New York, Tokyo, Melbourne, Shanghai, San Francisco and other world cities, Mike Hodson and Simon Marvin pose a critical question:<br />
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* Are visions of future urbanism socially and ecologically progressive or do they promote the selective and partial re-bounding of particular social groups and places predicated on new - often hidden - interdependencies?<br />
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They develop a critical synthesis of dominant, new infrastructure styles that they argue are emerging as responses to the systemic pressures of climate change and resource constraint confronting cities and networks. The book outlines the key elements of these new strategies and critically assesses their implications and relevance to other urban contexts.<br />
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World Cities and Climate Change is key reading for students, academics, researchers and policy makers with an interest in urban politics, technology and ecology.</div>
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<b>Mike Hodson </b>is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Sustainable Urban and Regional Futures (SURF), University of Salford.</div>
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<b>Simon Marvin </b>is a Professor and Co-Director of SURF.</div>
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Mike Hodson
Simon Marvin
Open University Press
October 2010
184
Ouvrage
The city and the world: New York's global future
New York, global city, ville globale, économie, délinquance, immigration, démographie, éducation, religion, culture urbaine, identité, gouvernance, Crahan Margaret E., Vourvoulias-Bush Alberto
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher:</b></div> </div> At first glance a study on cities and foreign policy may seem a bold leap into the future of international relations, but it represents, rather, a giant step into the present--into what is already taking place across this country and around the world. Cities have become actors in international affairs; and American cities have not only been players on the world scene but have been deeply transformed on the process as well. Over the last four years, the Council on Foreign Relations has been studying new actors in international affairs: business, nongovernmental organizations (particularly on such issues as the environment, human rights, and humanitarian relief and aid), and certain regions and localities that now orient their "foreign" policy or actions somewhat independently from that of their central governments. Of these new global actors, cities have drawn the least attention within policymaking circles and among the public. Although this volume looks at New York City, the United States' largest and most prominent international center, the issues and processes discussed--the economic restructuring of the economy, immigration, and internationalization of crime, the changing demands on, and functions of, social and civic institutions, the technological innovations that are revolutionizing how we live, do business, and form communities--represent fundamental challenges faced by cities and communities across the country; particularly at a time when many of the traditional functions of the central government are being privatized or decentralized. This is a volume of intellectual rigor--briskly written and clear-headed. It provides a model that will be emulated in the analysis of other global cities.</div> </div> <b>Contents:</b></div> </div> Robert D. Hormats - Foreword: New York's global future</div> Kenneth Maxwell - Acknowledgements</div> Margaret E. Crahan with Alberto Vourvoulias-Bush - Introduction: The city and the world</div> Carol O'Cléireacain - The private economy and the public budget of New York City</div> Rae D. Rosen with Reagan Murray - Opening doors: Access to the global market for financial sectors</div> Edward Mozley Roche - "Cyberopolis" : The cybernetic city faces the global economy</div> Clifford Krauss - The Cali cartel and the globalization of crime in New York City</div> Peter Andress - Policing the clandestine side of economic integration</div> Joseph J. Salvo and Arun Peter Lobo - Immigration and the changing demographic profile of New York</div> Robert C. Smith - Transnational migration, assimilation, and political community</div> Josh DeWing - Educating the children of immigrants in New York's restructured economy</div> Anthony M. Stevens-Arroyo - Building a new public realm: Moral responsibility and religious commitment in the city</div> Jay Kaplan - Rooting for a logo: Culture, identity, and civic experience in the global city</div> Saskia Sassen - Cities, foreign policy, and the global economy</div> </div> <b>Margaret E. Crahan </b>is Dorothy Epstein Professor in Latin American History at Hunter College.</div> <b>Alberto Vourvoulias-Bush </b>is Research Associate for Latin America at the Council on Foreign Relations and a doctoral candidate in politics at Yale University.</div> </div>
Margaret E. Crahan Alberto Vourvoulias-Bush
Council on Foreign Relations
1997
202
Ouvrage
http://books.google.com/books?id=uJQFm1ciG3gC&printsec=frontcover
Re-inventing global cities: CUPEM 20th anniversary international conference
ville mondiale, ville globale, world city, global city, économie, renouvellement urbain, développement urbain, aménagement urbain, planification, Asie, Asia
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University of Hong Kong. Centre of Urban Planning and Environmental Management
University of Hong Kong. Centre of Urban Planning and Environmental Management
11 November 2000
199
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Global cities conference : Max Planck Institute
ville globale, ville mondiale, global city, world city, mondialisation, religion, politique urbaine, société urbaine, gouvernance, urbanité, culture urbaine, Asia, Asie, ethnicité, ethnicity
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Multiple authors
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity
9-12 August 2009
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Connecting cities : Networks
, mondialisation, réseaux, infrastructures, ville mondiale, world city, global city
<b>Extract from the introduction by Chris Johnson :</b></div>
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Until recently cities were seen as places. Think of New York skyscrapers, the streets of Paris, the canals of Venice or Sydney Harbour.</div>
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Over the last 20 years or so a new reading of cities has emerged and that is their role as connectors of global capital or as satellites for global networks of advanced service providers. The new reading of the relevance of individual cities is based on how global they are as opposed to how local they are. This reading comes partly from the writings of Manuel Castells on the <i>City of Flows </i>and the pioneering research of Saskia Sassen on <i>Global Cities </i>(she framed the concept). But the role of cities as being networks of economic activity also comes from the rise of service providers in the areas of law, accounting, insurance, management, finance and design that are located everywhere. Well - perhaps not everwhere - but certainly where they see individual cities as being globally significant.</div>
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This book explores this new dimension of global networks, of connected cities, of the role of the internet in linking businesses across the globe, or the rise of aircraft connectivity to world cities.</div>
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<b>Contents : </b></div>
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Chris Johnson - Introduction</div>
Saskia Sassen - Cities in today's global age</div>
Peter Taylor - World city network</div>
Ben Derudder and Frank Witlox - Physical connection : Airline networks and cities</div>
Jonathan Rutherford - Virtual connection : Information networks and cities</div>
Michael Hoyler and Heike Jöns - Global knowledge networks</div>
Davina Jackson - D_City : Networking the data modelling revolution</div>
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Multiple authors
Metropolis Congress
2008
148
Autre
http://www.metropolis.org/publications/connecting-cities-networks-research-publication-metropolis-congress
Global cities? The Brown Journal of World Affairs (Vol. 11, No. 2)
ville mondiale, global city, world city, mondialisation
<b>NB : To access the full text of these articles, free registration is required</b></div>
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<b>From the abstract for Saskia Sassen's introductory article : </b></div>
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Each phase in the long history of the world economy raises specific questions about the particular conditions that make it possible. One of the key properties of the current phase is the ascendance of information technologies and the associated increase in the mobility and liquidity of capital. There have long been cross-border economic processes—flows of capital, labor, goods, raw materials, tourists. But to a large extent these took place within the inter-state system, where the key articulators were national states. The international economic system was ensconced largely in this inter-state system. This has changed rather dramatically over the last decade as a result of privatization, deregulation, the opening up of national economies to foreign firms, and the growing participation of national economic actors in global markets.</div>
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<b>Section contents : </b></div>
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The global city : Introducing a concept - Saskia Sassen</div>
The world urban hierarchy : Implications for cities, top to bottom - David A. Smith</div>
Our urban future : Making a home for Homo Urbanus - Anna Kajumulo Tibaijuka, Jos Maseland and Jay Moor</div>
Moving towards inclusive cities - Blair A. Ruble, Joseph S. Tulchin and Lisa M. Hanley</div>
Urban planning on a larger scale : Reimagining the city - Bruce Mau</div>
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Multiple authors
Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University
Winter/Spring 2005
27 - 87
Revue
http://www.bjwa.org/index.php?issue=11.2
The evolving spatial form of cities in a globalizing world economy : Johannesburg and São Paulo
ville mondiale, global city, analyse spatiale, forme urbaine, économie, espace urbain, Johannesburg, São Paulo, Murray Martin J.
<b>Abstract from the publisher : </b></div>
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Using the concept of 'global cities' as a key context to the discussion, Murray draws our attention to the large metropolises that dominate as economic power bases – cities such as New York and Tokyo – and then contrasts them with cities that aspire to such 'world-class' status as Johannesburg and São Paulo. While mindful of the historical and socio-political differences between South Africa and Brazil, the author notes the similarities in terms of their global marginalisation as key players, as well as the parallel ways their urban architecture has developed. São Paulo and Johannesburg both share a colonial past, and both became wealthy through exploitation of natural resources (coffee, minerals). Both share the development of an ever-growing chasm between the rich and the poor, reflected in contemporary designs of urban space. Murray takes a sharp, incisive look at the factors which are shaping the spaces in two contemporary cities, and comes up with a pithy commentary which is part architectural critique, part socio-political comment and part post-modern debate.</div>
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<b>Martin J. Murray </b>is Professor of Sociology at the State University of New York in Binghamton.</div>
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Martin J. Murray
HRSC Publishers
2004
68
Autre
http://www.hsrcpress.ac.za/product.php?cat=11&freedownload=1&productid=1968