Chen / Kanna Rethinking Global Urbanism

Comparative Insights from Secondary Cities
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-1-136-30943-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Advances in Geography

Arguing that the focus in global urban studies on cities such as New York, London, Tokyo in the global North, Mexico City and Shanghai in the developing world, and other major nodes of the world economy, has skewed the concept of the global city toward economics, this volume gathers a diverse group of contributors to focus on smaller and less economically dominant cities. It highlights other important and relatively ignored themes such as cultural globalization, alternative geographies of the global, and the influence of deeper urban histories (particularly those relating to colonialism) in order to advance an alternative view of the global city.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chen, Xiangming

Kanna, Ahmed

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Entwicklungsstudien
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface Tim Bunnell and James D. Sidaway. Acknowledgments. Introduction: Bringing the Less Familiar Cities In and Together Ahmed Kanna and Xiangming Chen Part I: Urban Present and Past: How Culture, History, and Politics Shape Secondary Global and Local Cityscapes 1. Competitive Globalization and Urban Change: The Allure of Cultural Strategies Sharon Zukin 2. The Trajectories of Two "Asian Tigers": The Colonial Roots of Capitalism in Dubai and Singapore Ahmed Kanna 3. Shaping Politics in Chinatown: The Intersection of Global Politics and Community Politics in Wartime and Cold War San Francisco Scott H. Tang Part II: Urban Contraction and Expansion: Economic Restructuring and Governance in De-Globalizing and Globalizing Secondary Cities 4. Staggering Job Loss, a Shrinking Revenue Base, and Grinding Decline: Springfield, Massachusetts in a Globalized Economy Robert Forrant 5. From Cars to Casinos: Global Pasts and Local Futures in the Detroit-Windsor Transnational Metropolitan Area Brent Ryan 6. From a Fishing Village via an Instant City to a Secondary Global City: The "Miracle" and Growth Pains of Shenzhen Special Economic Zone in China Xiangming Chen and Tomás de’Medici 7. The Third Coming of China’s Special Economic Zones: The Rise and Regional Dimensions of Tianjin Binhai New Area Chang Liu and Xiangming Chen 8. Social Accountability in African Cities: Comparing Participatory Budgeting in Johannesburg and Harare Tyanai Masiya Part III: The Contested Urban Arena: Identity and Exclusion in Secondary Cities 9. Globalization and the Construction of Identity in Two New Southeast Asian Capitals: Putrajaya and Dompak Sarah Moser 10. Off Limits and Out of Bounds: Taxi Driver Perceptions of Dangerous People and Places in Kunming, China Beth E. Notar 11. Seats of Difference: Coffeehouses and the Geo-economics of Gender in Contemporary Inner-City Tunis Rodney W. Collins 12. From the "Margin of the Margins" in Salvador, Brazil: Black Women Confront the Racial Logic of Spatial Exclusion Keisha-Khan Y. Perry Epilogue: Second May Be Best: Theorizing the Global Urban from the Middle Xiangming Chen and Michael Magdelinskas

Über Autor(innen)

Xiangming Chen is Dean and Director of the Center for Urban and Global Studies and Raether Distinguished Professor of Sociology and International Studies at Trinity College, and Distinguished Professor in the School of Social Development and Public Policy at Fudan University, Shanghai.

Ahmed Kanna is Assistant Professor of Anthropology in the School of International Studies at the University of the Pacific and was the Raether Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Urban and Global Studies at Trinity College during 2008-09.