Cities in transition : globalization, political change and urban development
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Cities in transition : globalization, political change and urban development
(The GeoJournal library, v. 83)
Springer, c2010
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Städte im Umbruch : die Neustrukturierung von Berlin, Brüssel, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh Stadt, HongKong, Jerusalem, Johannesburg, Moskau, St Petersburg, Sarajewo und Wien
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book was written with the aim of showing that even in the era of globalization developments appearing in cities are not subject to almost unconditional global forces. Rather, universal forces are decisive eventualities in the process of urban restructuring, often influencing its course and speed, yet developments and particularities within a city strongly influence the course of events and the extent to which negative characteristics of globalization might occur.
Berlin, Brussels, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong, Jerusalem, Johannesburg, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Sarajevo and Vienna: Using these important cities the special relationship between global and local/regional forces is analyzed. The case studies were selected based on their political and cultural context and the fact that their social and political fabric was subject to major changes in the recent past. How global processes manifest themselves locally depends to a great extent on how development processes and endogenic potentials are initiated locally in order to cope with the new global economic and societal conditions.
Table of Contents
Theoretical framework.
1. Global and local forces in cities undergoing political change, R. Schneider-Sliwa. Geographical contexts.
2. Berlin: Coping with the past - looking ahead, K. Lenz.
3. The political geography of an eternal city: Ethno-territorial fragmentation in a 'united' Jerusalem, D. Newman.
4. Power transferred. Hong Kong: China's global city, W. Breitung.
5. Sarajevo: Isolation in a country falling apart, D. Simko. Ideology collapsed.
6. Moscow: Capital of a decimated world power, J. Stadelbauer.
7. St. Petersburg: Kiosks as mediators of the new market economy, A. Papadopoulos and K. Axenov.
8. Johannesburg: Life after Apartheid, J. Bahr and U. Jurgens. Horizons expanded.
9. New perspectives for Vienna: Repositioning between East and West, A. Kampschulte.
10. Brussels: Pseudo-capital of Europe. Perspectives of Belgium's global city in-the-making, A. Papadopoulos. Development handicapped.
11. Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City: The long struggle of two cities / Recovering from endless war, R. Marr. Synopsis.
12. Global change and local reality, R. Schneider-Sliwa.
The authors.
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