Globalization and Urbanization - The Global Urban Ecosystem

This innovative book sees contemporary urban settlement as the new human ecosystems defining people's lives across the planet. Just as so-called natural ecosystems have defined our view of the symbiosis between humans and their environments, James H. Spencer argues that it is an urban ecosystem found across the planet that defines the twenty-first century. Using the globally diverse cases of Ho Chi Minh City, Addis Ababa, Honolulu, and New York, the book draws out the commonalities in how our intertwined built and social environments express a shared humanity across continents and cultures.

List of contents

Introduction
Chapter 1: Urbanization and the Construction of the Global Urban Ecosystem
Chapter 2: Urban Histories: Arriving at the Global Urban Ecosystem
Chapter 3: Saigon's "Do-Your-Timers": Rural Transformation and the Urban Transition in Saigon
Chapter 4: "Do-Your-Timers" African Style: Addis Ababa, the Unlikely Capital of Africa
Chapter 5: The Indigenous City? Reconciling an Old-Timers' Honolulu with a Global Society
Chapter 6: "For-All-Timers": New York City's Empire State of Mind
Chapter 7: The Global Urban Ecosystem: A Globally Integrated Ecology of Everyday Life
Bibliography

About the author

By James H. Spencer

Product details

• Authors: James H. Spencer
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.06.2014
• EAN: 9781442214743
• ISBN: 978-1-4422-1474-3
• No. of pages: 268
• Series: Globalization; Globalization
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Globalization, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Globalization, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, Human Geography, Urban communities, Settlement, urban and rural geography, international studies;urban studies