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OverviewDrawing on eight case studies from key cities on the periphery of global cities literature, Relocating Global Cities argues that all cities are globalizing in important ways. Case studies of Frankfurt, Johannesburg, Bangkok, Manila, Tampa, Sydney, Brussels, and Caracas provide the basis for an alternative theoretical approach to global city formation. Reconciling a market-based understanding and an agency-based understanding of global cities, this book proposes that globalization and cities are mutually constituted by the global political economy engaging with transnational and local agents. The volume proposes an alternate theoretical approach to the literature of globalization while remaining grounded in concrete discussions of key cities. Its expert contributors reconcile the conflicting ways in which two dominant paradigms, one emphasizing market forces and the other the unique actions of individuals and groups, embody our understanding of global cities. This book will be of interest to students and researchers alike, and is a perfect complement to texts in Urban Studies and Globalization. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Mark M. Amen , Kevin Archer , Martin M. Bosman , M Mark AmenPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Dimensions: Width: 16.40cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 23.70cm Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9780742541214ISBN 10: 0742541215 Pages: 248 Publication Date: 04 May 2006 Audience: College/higher education , Undergraduate Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Out of Print Availability: Out of stock  Table of ContentsChapter 1 Foreword Chapter 2 Thinking Through Global Cities Chapter 3 In London's Long Shadow: Frankfurt in the European Space of Flows Chapter 4 Johannesburg 1986-2030: A Quest to Regain World Status Chapter 5 Bangkok: Intentional World City Chapter 6 Laboring in the Periphery: The Place of Manila in the Global Economy Chapter 7 Place-Imaging Tampa in the Age of Globalization Chapter 8 Gentrification, Globalization, and Governance: The Reterritorialization of Sydney's City-State Chapter 9 Reluctant Globalizers: The Paradoxes of Glocal Development in Brussels Chapter 10 The Processes Underlying Caracas as a Globalizing City Chapter 11 Reconsidering the Social Structuration of GlobalizationReviewsThis excellent collection of studies of 'peripheral' globalizing of cities offers a fresh critical alternative to the reigning 'global' and 'world' cities perspectives. It will make compelling reading for all interested in the socio-spatial hierarchies and inequalities emerging in the new urban geography of global social relations. Crucially, this book offers an analytical antidote to economistic and depoliticized accounts of urban actors in 'negotiated' globalization processes today.--Barry Gills Author InformationM. Mark Amen is academic director for the Dr. Kiran C. Patel Center for Global Solutions at the University of South Florida and has been a member of the faculty in the Department of Government and International Affairs since 1982. Kevin Archer is associate professor and chair of the Department of Geography at the University of South Florida. M. Martin Bosman is assistant professor in the Department of Geography at the University of South Florida. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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