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Overview"Cities are seen as essentially ""good"": innovative, pro-growth, poverty-reducing. In a challenging corrective to this common portrayal, Christof Parnreiter argues that the same urban properties which make cities so extraordinarily proficient at producing the ""good"" innovations - agglomeration economies, network externalities and a massive built environment - also provides fertile ground for the development of the ""bad"" ones, on which urban elites have syphoned off wealth from other localities and regions. The book scrutinizes the interconnections between wealth creation and poverty generation by putting cities centre stage as a fundamental explanatory category for understanding how the wealth of nations is produced as well as for grasping how the poverty of nations is created. It seeks to correct the developmentalist enthusiasm, commonplace in urban and regional studies, for cities' efficiency, which has displaced interest in cities' role in uneven development." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Prof. Christof Parnreiter (University of Hamburg)Publisher: Agenda Publishing Imprint: Agenda Publishing Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 23.40cm ISBN: 9781788215596ISBN 10: 1788215591 Pages: 160 Publication Date: 09 May 2024 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Uneven development 3. The genius of cities 4. The Janus-faced genius of cities 5. Towards a citified research agenda on uneven development 6. Concluding remarksReviewsParnreiter presents an urgent corrective lens to pierce the proliferating facades of urban recreation to reveal the grim state of nations. Whether this is caused by cities is a question Parnreiter explores. This vista should inform the nascent discourse about making new cities that are neither shanty towns nor gleaming bunkers. -- Saskia Sassen, Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology, Columbia University Just as the idea of the “triumph” of the city and the driving force of agglomeration economies has become hegemonic, Christof Parnreiter reminds us of the important counterpoint of the city’s dark side. This is required reading for those that want to know what the “urban age” is really about. -- Michiel van Meeteren, Assistant Professor in Human Geography, Utrecht University Cities are inherently complex. The development of cities never creates simple outcomes. These truisms are often missing from recent studies of contemporary urbanization. Parnreiter provides a convincing, and very necessary, corrective to laudatory promotions of cities today. -- Peter J. Taylor, Director of Globalisation and World Cities (GaWC) research network Parnreiter presents an urgent corrective lens to pierce the proliferating facades of urban recreation to reveal the grim state of nations. Whether this is caused by cities is a question Parnreiter explores. This vista should inform the nascent discourse about making new cities that are neither shanty towns nor gleaming bunkers. -- Saskia Sassen, Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology, Columbia University Author InformationChristof Parnreiter is Professor of Economic Geography at the University of Hamburg and an Associate Director of the Globalization and World Cities Research Network. His books include Global City Makers (2018) (with Michael Hoyler and Allan Watson). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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