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Globalization and the city : two connected phenomena in past and present / / Andreas Exenberger, Philipp Strobl, Günter Bischof, James Mokhiber (eds.)



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Autore: Andreas Exenberger Philipp Strobl, Günter Bischof, James Mokhiber (dir.) Visualizza persona
Titolo: Globalization and the city : two connected phenomena in past and present / / Andreas Exenberger, Philipp Strobl, Günter Bischof, James Mokhiber (eds.) Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: innsbruck university press, 2013
[Innsbruck, Austria] : , : Innsbruck University Press, [2013]
©2013
Edizione: 1st edition.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (221 pages ) : illustrations (some colour), maps (some colour)
Disciplina: 307.76
Soggetto topico: Cities and towns
Globalization
Soggetto non controllato: culture
globalization
global history
economy
Persona (resp. second.): ExenbergerAndreas <1972-, >
StroblPhilipp (Philipp Luis)
BischofGünter <1953-, >
MokhiberJames
Note generali: Based on papers presented at the Conference in World History: the Role and Function of the Global City, held November 2011 in Innsbruck as a joint conference of the partner universities of Innsbruck and New Orleans.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
Nota di contenuto: Preface / Günter Bischof -- Introduction / Andreas Exenberger, Philipp Strobl -- No industrialization without urbanization : the role of class in modern economic development / Franz Mathis -- Global cities and the "new" world history : narratives and teaching perspectives from the United States after the fall of "Western civilization" / James Mokhiber -- Bringing economic geography back in : global cities and the governance of commodity chain / Christof Parnreiter -- Phenomenon of global cities in the ancient world / Brigitte Truschnegg -- New Orleans as a global city : contemporary assessment and past glory / Robert Dupont -- Zanzibar : imperialism, photo-globalization, and a nineteenth century Indian Ocean boom town / Erik Gilbert -- The evolution of a global city : Vienna's integration into the world city system / Robert Musil -- São Paulo : big, bigger, global? : the development of a megacity in the global South / Tobias Töpfer -- The reach of the continental blockade : the case of Toulouse / Andreas Dibiasi -- Designing a global city : Tokyo / Beate Löffler -- The Council of European Municipalities and Regions : shared governance in a world featured by globalization issues / Manfred Kohler.
Sommario/riassunto: The world today is far less a global village than a "global city", as global network of multidimensional urban spaces of congestion prominently forming - and also formed by - globalization. But the relevance of cities is nothing but new. They were essential for culture and civilization worldwide, they allowed a centralization of power and knowledge and they were crucial for the division of labor and for the organization of mass demand. Further, as places of intense and continuous interactions, cities are the locations par excellence for global history to take place. Thus, there is a need to study the history of cities in connection with the history of globalization from this perspective. This book is dedicated to contribute to the still underdeveloped but growing literature connecting the history of cities worldwide and their relation to global processes. The authors do so from various disciplinary backgrounds and by referring to different times and places. We visit ancient Alexandria, nineteenth century Zanzibar, and modern-day São Paolo, among others, and we view these cities not only in their globality, but also through their heritage, their economic relevance, their architecture, or financial flows connecting them. Further, the book also contains systematic considerations about "global city", especially the general role of cities in development, cities in global history teaching, and cities' relationships to global commodity chains.
Die Welt ist heute viel weniger ein globales Dorf als eine globale Stadt, eine "global city". Dieses weltumspannende Netzwerk multidimensionaler urbaner Räume der Verdichtung steht dabei in einem wechselseitigen Verhältnis zu Globalisierung: es gestaltet sie zugleich, wie sie auch durch sie beständig mitgestaltet wird. Aber die Bedeutung von Städten ist alles andere als neu. Weltweit waren sie entscheidend für Kultur und Zivilisation, sie erlaubten eine Zentralisierung von Macht und Wissen und sie waren zentral für die Arbeitsteilung und die Organisation der Massennachfrage. Als Plätze der anhaltenden Interaktion waren und sind Städte ausserdem prototypische Orte, an denen sich Globalgeschichte ereignet. Daher ist es nötig, die Geschichte von Städten in Zusammenhang mit der Geschichte der Globalisierung zu erzählen. Dieses Buch untersucht den Zusammenhang zwischen der Geschichte von Städten weltweit und ihre Beziehung zu globalen Prozessen. Die AutorInnen betrachten u.a. das antike Alexandria, Zanzibar im 19. Jahrhundert und das heutige São Paolo nicht nur in ihrer Globalität, sondern auch durch ihr kulturelles Erbe, ihre wirtschaftliche Bedeutung, ihre Architektur oder durch Finanzflüsse zwischen ihnen. Zudem enthält das Buch systematische Beiträge zur "globalen Stadt", insbesondere zur Rolle von Städten für die Entwicklung, den Stellenwert von Städten im Globalgeschichteunterricht und ihre Beziehung zu globalen Güterketten.
Altri titoli varianti: Globalisation and the city
Titolo autorizzato: Globalization and the city  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 9783903122239
3903122238
9783902811967
390281196X
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910141845003321
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Serie: Edited volume series.