Rethinking global urbanism : comparative insights from secondary cities / / edited by Xiangming Chen and Ahmed Kanna

• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Routledge, , 2012
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (289 p.)
• Disciplina: 307.76
• Soggetto topico: Cities and towns; Urbanization; Sociology, Urban; Globalization - Social aspects
• Altri autori: ChenXiangming <1955-> KannaAhmed
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: pt. 1. Urban present and past : how culture, history, and politics shape global and local cityscapes -- pt. 2. Urban contraction and expansion : economic restructuring and governance in de-globalizing and globalizingsecondary cities -- pt. 3. The contested urban arena : identity and exclusion in secondary cities.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Rethinking global urbanism
• ISBN: 1-136-30942-X; 1-280-68184-5; 9786613658784; 0-203-11836-7; 1-136-30943-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910817760503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge advances in geography ; ; 7.