Global port cities in North America : urbanization processes and global production networks
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Global port cities in North America : urbanization processes and global production networks
(Routledge advances in geography, 13)
Routledge, 2015
- : hbk
Available at 6 libraries
  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
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
As the material anchors of globalization, North America's global port cities channel flows of commodities, capital, and tourists. This book explores how economic globalization processes have shaped these cities' political institutions, social structures, and urban identities since the mid-1970s. Although the impacts of financialization on global cities have been widely discussed, it is curious that how the global integration of commodity chains actually happens spatially - creating a quantitatively new, global organization of production, distribution, and consumption processes - remains understudied. The book uses New York City, Los Angeles, Vancouver, and Montreal as case studies of how once-redundant spaces have been reorganized, and crucially, reinterpreted, so as to accommodate new flows of goods and people - and how, in these processes, social, environmental, and security costs of global production networks have been shifted to the public.
Table of Contents
Part I: Introduction: Global Cities in Global Production Networks 1. Globalization's Hidden Anchors 2. Blind Spots of Globalization Part II: Discourses of Urban Progress: Creating a Postindustrial Utopia 3. The Logistics Revolution and the End of Fordism 4. The Redundancy of Fordist Infrastructures 5. Imagining a Post-industrial Future Part III: Frictionless Supply Chains: Utopia's Negative Externalities 6. How Social and Ecological Costs Have Been Externalized 7. Who Pays?: A Geography of Costs 8. Secure Flows, Optimized Networks Part IV: Conclusions: State Legitimacy and the Public Good 9. Infrastructures and Spectacles of the Global 10. Arguments of False Necessity: Discontinuities and Potential Futures
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