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Record Nr.

UNINA9910830926503321

Titolo

Globalizing cities : a new spatial order? / / edited by Peter Marcuse, Ronald Van Kempen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, West Sussex : , : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., , [2008]

©2008

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

Disciplina

307.76

Soggetti

Cities and towns

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 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.