Global City-Regions

Trends, Theory, Policy

Inbunden, Engelska, 2001

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Beskrivning

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 offers a series of nuanced visions of alternative possible futures.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2001-01-25
Mått:162 x 242 x 30 mm
Vikt:845 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:484
Förlag:OUP OXFORD
ISBN:9780198297994

Utforska kategorier

Entreprenörskap inom Ekonomi och Ledarskap
Geografi inom Naturvetenskap och teknik
Affärsstrategi inom Ekonomi och Ledarskap

Mer om författaren

Allen J. Scott was born in England and educated at Oxford University. He is currently professor jointly appointed to the Departments of Policy Studies and Geography at the University of California, Los Angeles. He was a recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship in 1986-7, and was awarded Honors by the Association of American Geographers in 1987. He was elected as corresponding fellow of the British Academy in 1999. In the winter of 1998-9 he occupied the André Siegfried Chair in the Institut d'Etudes Politiques, Paris. His most recent books are Regions and the World Economy (Oxford University Press, 1998) and The Cultural Economy of Cities (Sage, 2000).

Recensioner i media

This edited volume has taken us a step forward in advancing our understanding of global cities and their immediate functional and spatial regions in contemporary globalization. I would recommend it to both geographers and urban theorists and, as a course text, for those who are interested in globalization and world cities.

Innehållsförteckning

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