Global city-regions : trends, theory, policy
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Global city-regions : trends, theory, policy
Oxford University Press, 2002, c2001
- : pbk
Available at 21 libraries
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"Published new as paperback 2002"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
There are now more than three hundred city-regions around the world with populations greater than one million. These city-regions are expanding vigorously, and they present many new and deep challenges to researchers and policy-makers in both the more developed and less developed parts of the world. The processes of global economic integration and accelerated urban growth make traditional planning and policy strategies in these regions increasingly inadequate, while
more effective approaches remain largely in various stages of hypothesis and experimentation.
Global City-Regions represents a multifaceted effort to deal with the many different issues raised by these developments. It seeks at once to define the question of global city-regions and to describe the internal and external dynamics that shape them; it proposes a theorization of global city-regions based on their economic and political responses to intensifying levels of globalization; and it offers a number of policy insights into the severe social problems that confront global
city-regions as they come face to face with an economically and politically neoliberal world.
At a moment when globalization is increasingly subject to critical scrutiny in many different quarters, this book provides a timely overview of its effects on urban and regional development, one of its most important (but perhaps least understood) corollaries. The book also offes a series of nuanced visions of alternative possible futures.
Table of Contents
- PART I: OPENING ARGUMENTS
- PART II: ON PRACTICAL QUESTIONS OF GLOBALIZATION AND CITY-REGION DEVELOPMENT
- PART III: THE GLOBAL CITY-REGION: A NEW GEOGRAPHIC PHENOMENON?
- PART IV: THE COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGES OF GLOBAL CITY-REGIONS
- PART V: GLOBAL CITY-REGIONS IN AFRICA, ASIA, AND LATIN AMERICA: POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC CHALLENGES
- PART VI: SOCIAL INEQUALITIES AND IMMIGRANT NICHES IN GLOBAL CITY-REGIONS
- PART VII: QUESTIONS OF CITIZENSHIP
- PART VIII: THE NEW COLLECTIVE ORDER OF GLOBAL CITY-REGIONS
- PART IX: CODA: ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES
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