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Informationen zum Autor Xuefei Ren is Associate Professor of Sociology and Global Urban Studies at Michigan State University. Roger Keil is York Research Chair in Global Sub/Urban Studies in the Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, Toronto. Klappentext Revised edition of The global cities reader! 2006. Zusammenfassung The newly revised Globalizing Cities Reader reflects how the geographies of theory have recently shifted away from the western vantage points from which much of the classic work in this field was developed. The expanded volume continues to make available many of the original and foundational works that underpin the research field, while expanding coverage to familiarize students with new theoretical and epistemological positions as well as emerging research foci and horizons. It contains 38 new chapters, including key writings on globalizing cities from leading thinkers such as John Friedmann, Michael Peter Smith, Saskia Sassen, Peter Taylor, Manuel Castells, Anthony King, Jennifer Robinson, Ananya Roy, and Fulong Wu. The new Reader reflects the fact that world and global city studies have evolved in exciting and wide-ranging ways, and the very notion of a distinct "global" class of cities has recently been called into question. The sections examine the foundations of the field and processes of urban restructuring and global city formation. A large number of new entries focus on the emerging urban worlds of Asia, Latin America and Africa, including Beijing, Bogota, Cairo, Cape Town, Delhi, Istanbul, Medellin, Mumbai, Phnom Penh, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, and Shanghai. The book also presents cases off the conventional map of global cities research, such as smaller cities and less known urban regions that are undergoing processes of globalization. The book is a key resource for students and scholars alike who seek an accessible compendium of the intellectual foundations of global urban studies as well as an overview of the emergent patterns of early 21st century urbanization and associated sociopolitical contestation around the world. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Plates Lists of figures List of tables List of contributors Editor’s Introduction to Second Edition Acknowledgements PART 1 FOUNDATIONS Introduction to Part One 1.0 Prologue The Metropolitan Explosion Peter Hall 1.1 Divisions of Space and Time in Europe Fernand Braudel 1.2 World City Formation: An Agenda for Research and Action John Friedmann and Goetz Wolff 1.3 Locating Cities on Global Circuits Saskia Sassen 1.4 Urban Specialization in the World System Nestor Rodriguez and Joe Feagin 1.5 Accumulation and Comparative Urban Systems John Walton 1.6 The World-System Perspective and Urbanization Michael Timberlake 1.7 Global City Formation in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles: An Historical Perspective Janet Abu-Lughod 1.8 Global and World Cities: A View from Off the Map Jennifer Robinson 1.9 Space in the Globalizing City Peter Marcuse PART 2 PATHWAYS Introduction to Part Two 2.0 Prologue Istanbul was our past, Istanbul is our future Hamid Dabashi 2.1 The City as a Landscape of Power: London and New York as Global Financial Capitals Sharon Zukin 2.2 Detroit and Houston: Two Cities in Global Perspective Richard C. Hill and Joe Feagin 2.3 The Stimulus of a Little Confusion: A Contemporary Comparison of Amsterdam and Los Angeles Edward Soja 2.4 Global City Zurich: Paradigms of Urban Development Christian Schmid 2.5 From ‘State-Owned’ to ‘City Inc.’: The Re-territorialization of the State in Shanghai Fulong Wu 2.6 The...
