World Cities Beyond the West: Globalization, Development and InequalityJosef Gugler Cambridge University Press, 14 d’oct. 2004 - 396 pàgines 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. |
Continguts
Shanghai remaking Chinas future global city | 27 |
Seoul complementing economic success with Games | 59 |
Bangkok evolution and adaptation under stress | 82 |
Cairo too many people not enough land too few resources | 119 |
Mexico City in an era of globalization and demographic downturn | 151 |
The impact of the state | 189 |
Moscows changing fortunes under three regimes | 191 |
Hong Kongs pathway to becoming a global city | 212 |
Jakarta globalization economic crisis and social change | 268 |
The impact of popular movements | 297 |
São Paulo the political and socioeconomic transformations wrought by the New Labor Movement in the city and beyond | 299 |
BombayMumbai globalization inequalities and politics | 328 |
Johannesburg race inequality and urbanization | 348 |
Afterword | 371 |
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Singapore forming the family for a world city | 240 |
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Pàgina 383 - ... organizational commodity," but also by disadvantaged sectors of the urban population, frequently as internationalized a presence in large cities as capitaL The denationalizing of urban space and the formation of new claims by transnational actors raise the question, "Whose city is it?
Pàgina xiii - Saskia Sassen is the Ralph Lewis Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago, and Centennial Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics.