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OverviewThe nature and effects of globalization are coming under critical scrutiny across all continents. This book focuses on one aspect, the globalization of cities. It examines the claim that the state is powerless to influence events, and that history, geography, and culture have become irrelevant in the worldwide trend towards a uniform urban model; a model which features increased segregation, decline of the central city, and social polarization. The international team of contributors is well placed to put these claims in perspective. Drawing on their experiences of cities as diverse as New York and Warsaw, Istanbul and Sao Paulo, they demonstrate that states and cities have adopted widely varying approaches to the advent of globalization; and that its impact has been constrained by each city's history, physical layout, location, environment, role in the international economy, and demographic composition. The diversity of urban development and political response revealed is enormous, and provides ample practical examples of what might be done to bring about improvements for the increasing number of people who live in cities. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Peter Marcuse (, Professor of Urban Planning, Columbia University) , Ronald van Kempen (, Associate Professor, Urban Research Centre, Utrecht University)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 16.30cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 24.10cm Weight: 0.601kg ISBN: 9780198297192ISBN 10: 019829719 Pages: 312 Publication Date: 02 May 2002 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 Contents1: Peter Marcuse, Ronald van Kempen: States and Cities and the Partitioning of Urban Space: Introduction 2: Peter Marcuse: The Divided City in History 3: Ronald Van Kempen: The Academic Formulations: Explanations of the Partitioned City 4: Peter Lee and Alan Murie: The Poor City: National and Local Perspectives on Changes in Residential Patterns in the British City 5: Ronald van Kempen: Towards Partitioned Cities in the Netherlands? Changing Patterns of Segregation in a Highly Developed Welfare State 6: Peter Marcuse: The Shifting Meaning of the Black Ghetto in the United States 7: Sueli Ramos Schiffer: Economic Restructuring and Urban Segregation in Sao Paulo 8: Janos Ladanyi: Residential Segregation among Social and Ethnic Groups in Budapest during the Post-communist Transition 9: Grzegorz Weclawowicz: From Egalitarion Cities in Theory to Non-Egalitarian Cities in Practice: The Changing Social and Spatial Patterns in Polish Cities 10: Murat Guvenc and Oguz Isik: A Metropolis at the Crossroads: The Changing Social Geography of Istanbul under the Impact of Globalization 11: Loic Wacquant: The Rise of Advanced Marginality: Notes on its Nature and Implications 12: Eva T. van Kempen: Poverty Pockets and Social Exclusion: On the Role of Place in Shaping Social Inequality 13: Peter Marcuse, Ronald van Kempen: States and Cities and the Partitioning of Urban Space: Conclusions Afterword on September 11 IndexReviewsThere is much of value here both in some of the substantive detail and in the agenda of questions raised for further work. Development Policy Review There is much fascinating material here, careful, empirical, sober, and, insofar as it is possible, open-minded. Development Policy Review Marcuse's history of the creation and successive transformations of the black ghetto in the US is particuarly good, as also is the account of the change from the communist to the post-communist era in Budapest and Polish cities. Development Policy Review Author InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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