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Record Nr.

UNINA9910144114503321

Titolo

Globalizing cities [[electronic resource] ] : a new spatial order? / / edited by Peter Marcuse and Ronald van Kempen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; Malden, MA, : Blackwell, 2000

ISBN

1-281-84067-X

9786611840679

0-470-71288-0

0-470-71263-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (338 p.)

Collana

Studies in urban and social change

Altri autori (Persone)

MarcusePeter

KempenRonald van

Disciplina

307.76

Soggetti

Cities and towns

Spatial behavior

Polarization (Social sciences)

Human geography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [276]-301) and index.

Nota di contenuto

GLOBALIZING CITIES: A NEW SPATIAL ORDER?; Contents; List of Figures; List of Maps; List of Tables; List of Contributors; Series Editors' Preface; Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 The Unavoidable Continuities of the City; 3 From the Metropolis to Globalization: The Dialectics of Race and Urban Form; 4 From Colonial City to Globalizing City? The Far-from complete Spatial Transformation of Calcutta; 5 Rio de Janeiro: Emerging Dualization in a Historically Unequal City; 6 Singapore: the Changing Residential Landscape in a Winner City; 7 Tokyo: Patterns of Familiarity and Partitions of Difference

8 Still a Global City: The Racial and Ethnic Segmentation of New York9 Brussels: Post-Fordist Polarization in a Fordist Spatial Canvas; 10 The Imprint of the Post-Fordist Transition on Australian Cities; 11 The Globalization of Frankfurt am Main: Core, Periphery and Social Conflict; 12 Conclusion: A Changed Spatial Order; List of References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This exciting collection of original essays provides students and professionals with an international and comparative examination of



changes in global cities, revealing a growing pattern of social and spatial division or polarization.