Global metropolitan : globalizing cities in a capitalist world / / John Rennie Short
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| Autore: |
Short John R
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| Titolo: |
Global metropolitan : globalizing cities in a capitalist world / / John Rennie Short
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, NY, : Routledge, 2004 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (viii, 146 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina: | 307.76 |
| Soggetto topico: | Metropolitan areas |
| Urbanization | |
| Globalization | |
| Cosmopolitanism | |
| City dwellers - Social conditions | |
| City dwellers - Economic conditions | |
| City and town life | |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Cover -- Global Metropolitan: Globalizing cities in a capitalist world -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Globalization and the city -- 3. From world cities to globalizing cities -- 4. Globalizing cities -- 5. Black holes and loose connections -- 6. Tensions in the global city -- 7. The modalities of the global city -- 8. Going for gold: globalizing the Olympics, localizing the Games -- 9. The super-rich and the global city -- 10. The global, the city and the body -- References -- Index. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | This book explains the economic and social changes cities experience as they compete in a global world and explores how the discourse of globalizing has become a major narrative in the restructuring of cities around the world. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Global metropolitan |
| ISBN: | 1-134-40520-0 |
| 0-203-50865-3 | |
| 9786610077762 | |
| 1-134-40519-7 | |
| 1-280-07776-X | |
| 9780203508657 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9911101351803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Questioning cities series ; ; 1.