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Global cities and urban theory / Donald McNeill.
LIBRA HT151 M389 2017
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McNeill, Donald, 1969- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cities and towns.
- Globalization--Political aspects.
- Globalization.
- Globalization--Economic aspects.
- Urbanization--Political aspects.
- Urbanization.
- Urbanization--Economic aspects.
- Physical Description:
- x, 182 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : SAGE, 2017.
- Summary:
- What do we mean by 'global'? What constitutes a 'city'? And what objects and practices are involved in putting the two together? Global Cities and Urban Theory explores these key modern questions by examining the nature of practices as diverse as container logistics air-conditioning, cathedral design, corporate accountancy, hotel management, city ranking office work, and 'smart city' technologies in the making of contemporary global cities. McNeill place the key 'representational' debates about the nature of the global city alongside materialist epistemologies of how cities are distributed, calculated embodied and organized. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Bright lights, global cities 1
- Cultural and political economies 6
- Material turns 7
- The organization of the book 11
- 1 Centrality 14
- Caput Mundi: capital of the world 15
- The 'original globalizer'? Cities and territorialized religion 16
- The cathedral and the global city 18
- Theological centrality 21
- Popemobile: universality and visibility 22
- Creative globalization? Pilgrimage practices 24
- The Bible and the global South 27
- 2 Flat Cities 32
- Actor-networks and political economies 32
- A Paris journey; or, the problem of the 'zoom' 34
- How big is the city? 39
- World's Fairs 41
- Centre of calculation 42
- The objects that hold Paris together 44
- Small Paris: recomposition 46
- A rumour of cities 48
- 3 Global Urban Order(Ing) 52
- Metageographies 52
- Global rankings 55
- The 'ordinary' city' debates 57
- Ontologies of big cities 61
- Standard cities 65
- Global standards I: hotels 66
- Global standards II: air conditioning 70
- 4 Logistical Territories 76
- Circumferential and surface geographies 76
- Logistical territories 79
- Port ontologies 82
- A ship-centric ontology of the urban? 86
- Airport territories 88
- The production of Hong Kong International Airport 92
- 5 Centres of Calculation 97
- CBD: the central business district as a 'centre of calculation' 99
- Office geographies 103
- Bodies and work 105
- Saskia Sassen's financial centres 108
- Metrologies of centrality: critical accounting 110
- Calculable city space 114
- Global cities and the 'super-rich' 116
- Moral geographies 117
- Forensic urban geography 120
- 6 WORLD-MAKING 124
- Models, experts and consultants 124
- Actualization 126
- The selling of the Silicon Valley model 130
- Management consultancy as worlding practice 132
- Co-presence and business travel 134
- Gurus and urbanologists 137
- San Francisco and the global expansion of Uber 141
- Testbeds and experimentation 143
- Urban laboratories: New Songdo and Masdar City 144
- Conclusions 149
- Distance and panorama 150
- Global cities are miscellaneous concentrations of firms 152
- Calculated territories 153
- Power and cities 154
- Ethnographic sensitivities 155.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-177) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781446267066
- 1446267067
- 9781446267073
- 1446267075
- OCLC:
- 969680882
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