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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Allen J. Scott (, Department of Policy Studies and Department of Geography, University of California, Los Angeles)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 16.20cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 24.20cm Weight: 0.845kg ISBN: 9780198297994ISBN 10: 0198297998 Pages: 484 Publication Date: 25 January 2001 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsAllen J. Scott: Introduction Part I: Opening Arguments 1: Allen J. Scott, John Agnew, Edward W. Soja, and Michael Storper: Global City-Regions Part II: On Practical Questions of Globalization and City-Region Development 2: Kenichi Ohmae: How to Invite Prosperity from the Global Economy into a Region 3: James D. Wolfensohn: The World Bank and Global City-Regions: Reaching the Poor 4: Lucien Bouchard: Quebec in an Era of Global City-Regions Part III: The Global City-Region: A New Geographic Phenomenon? 5: Sir Peter Hall: Global City-Regions in the Twenty-First Century 6: Saskia Sassen: Global Cities and Global City-Regions: A Comparison 7: Roberto Camagni: The Economic Role and Spatial Contradictions of Global City-Regions: The Functional, Cognitive, and Evolutionary Context 8: John Friedmann: Intercity Networks in a Globalizing Era Part IV: The Competitive Advantages of Global City-Regions 9: Michael E. Porter: Regions and the New Economics of Competition 10: Thomas J. Courchene: Ontario as a North American Region-State, Toronto as a Global City-Region: Responding to the NAFTA Challenge Part V: Global City-Regions in Africa, Asia, and Latin America: Political and Economic Challenges 11: Richard Stren: Local Governance and Social Diversity in the Developing World: New Challenges for Globalizing City-Regions 12: Tim Campbell: Innovation and Risk-Taking: Urban Governance in Latin America 13: Michael Douglass: Intercity Competition and the Question of Economic Resilience: Globalization and Crisis in Asia 14: Won Bae Kim: Repositioning of City-Regions: Korea after the Crisis Part VI: Social Inequalities and Immigrant Niches in Global City-Regions 15: Susan S. Fainstein: Inequality in Global City-Regions 16: Roger Waldinger: The Immigrant Niche in Global City-Regions: Concept, Patterns, Controversy Part VII: Questions of Citizenship 17: James Holston: Urban Citizenship and Globalization 18: Engin F. Isin: Istanbul's Conflicting Paths to Citizenship: Islamization and Globalization Part VIII: The New Collective Order of Global City-Regions 19: Michael Keating: Governing Cities and Regions: Territorial Restructuring in a Global Age 20: Douglas Henton: Lessons from Silicon Valley: Governance in a Global City-Region 21: Hubert Schmitz: Local Governance and Conflict Management: Reflections on a Brazilian Cluster Part IX: Coda: Environmental Issues 22: Theodore Panayotou: Environmental Sustainability and Services in Developing Global City-RegionsReviewsThis edited volume has taken us a step forward in advancing our understanding of global cities and their immediate functional and spatial regions in contemporary globalization. I would recommend it to both geographers and urban theorists and, as a course text, for those who are interested in globalization and world cities. Progress in Human Geography This comprehensive collection hits some important academic and policy targets in very timely fashion ... this is a book that will surely be a useful reference point for both students and researchers alike. International Planning Studies For those new to the debate over the nexus of global-urban relations, this volume is a useful introduction to a number of the key issues and concerns of this approach, although familiarity with the global city framework would contextualize some of the discussion. For those more familiar with the extant literature, this collection has enough that is new to encourage reflection. International Affairs I strongly recommend this book ... it begins to provide us with a way to think across traditionally urban and regional scales of analysis and dialogue. That alone is a welcome addition to the now massive, if often fragmented, literature on globalization and its manifold consequences. Regional Studies Well-edited and multi-faceted. Regional Studies Author InformationAllen J. Scott was born in England and educated at Oxford University. He is currently professor jointly appointed to the Departments of Policy Studies and Geography at the University of California, Los Angeles. He was a recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship in 1986-7, and was awarded Honors by the Association of American Geographers in 1987. He was elected as corresponding fellow of the British Academy in 1999. In the winter of 1998-9 he occupied the André Siegfried Chair in the Institut d'Etudes Politiques, Paris. His most recent books are Regions and the World Economy (Oxford University Press, 1998) and The Cultural Economy of Cities (Sage, 2000). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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