Global city challenges : debating a concept, improving the practice / edited by Michele Acuto, Senior Lecturer, University College London, UK, Wendy Steele, ARC Fellow, Griffith University, Australia.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Acuto, Michele, 1984-

Steele, Wendy.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cities and towns.

Urbanization.

City planning.

Regional planning.

International relations.

Globalization--Social aspects.

Globalization.

Physical Description:

xii, 278 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

Summary:

Global city-thinking has, in the past years, had a very real pull on society. Global cities seem an unavoidable fact of everyday world affairs. This volume gathers a forum that integrates the extensive set of disciplinary dimensions to which the interdisciplinary concept of the global city can help to tackle the policy challenges of today's metropolises. Its chapters are drawn from viewpoints including the cultural, economic, historical, postcolonial, virtual, architectural, literary, security and political dimensions of global cities. Tasked with providing a rejoinder to the global city scholarship from each of these perspectives, the authors illustrate what twin analytical and practical challenges emerge from juxtaposing these stances to the concept of the 'global city'. They rely not solely on theory but also on sample case studies drawn from either long-lived global cities such as New York, Shanghai and London or emerging metropolises like Dubai, Cape Town and Sydney. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Introduction / Michele Acuto Acuto, Michele, Wendy Steele Steele, Wendy 1

2 The Global City Tradition / Christof Parnreiter Parnreiter, Christof 15

3 The Network Dimension / Ben Derudder Derudder, Ben, Michael Hoyler Hoyler, Michael, Peter J. Taylor Taylor, Peter J. 33

4 The Economic and Financial Dimensions / David Bassens Bassens, David 47

5 The Historical Dimension / Peter Rimmer Rimmer, Peter, Howard Dick Dick, Howard 63

6 The Postcolonial Dimension / Vanessa Watson Watson, Vanessa 88

7 The Literary Dimension / Sheila Hones Hones, Sheila 101

8 The Virtual Dimension / Mark Graham Graham, Mark 117

9 The Cultural Dimension / Oli Mould Mould, Oli 140

10 The Architectural Dimension / Kerwin Data Data, Kerwin 155

11 The Geopolitical Dimension / Michele Acuto Acuto, Michele 170

12 The Security Dimension / David Murakami-Wood Murakami-Wood, David 188

13 Global City Challenges: A View from the Field / Glen Searle Searle, Glen 202.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781137286864

1137286865

OCLC:

848162794