Pablo Baisotti is an External Researcher at the University of Brasilia, Department of Latin American Studies (ELA).

By the end of 2022, the world's population numbered just over 7.8 billion. 56.4 percent of these live in large urban concentrations and almost two-thirds of that agglomeration is located in Asian and Latin American cities. That is the quantitative context of the book edited by Professor Pablo Baisotti. It is clear that the most fundamental political and social challenges of the Asian continent and the Latin American region in the very coming decades will revolve around the structure and institutional functioning of urban concentration. In the Latin American region, meanwhile, other aspects of urban culture are observable, as listed in this book. It highlights, for instance, a great mobility of diverse groups and social strata among large cities. In more than one case, the population growth of some urban concentrations in the region is due to a growing interurban mobility, which has increased the number of inhabitants of some cities with immigrants from others, without noticeable altering the vegetative growth of large cities. The political effects have been obvious, though, since this mobility has gravitated to the presence of new ideological and institutional references. This is a book that comprehensively covers the vicissitudes of urban agglomerations during the last twenty years. From their respective points of view, the authors converge in acknowledging the relevance of this issue from their respective realities. In short, it is an indispensable work in these matters and therefore it is convenient to have it at hand.

• Introduction by the editorPART I ASIA: CENTRE OF GROWTH AND GLOBALITYChapter 1Chinese Cities from the Ground to the Sky: Building Suzhou as a Global City beyond the TraditionRaffaele PerniceChapter 2 The Urban Geographies of a Small Island: A Dialectical Spatial Approach Gang HongChapter 3The rise of Chongqing and Queretaro: the territorial dimension of the divergent trajectories of two emerging urban economies in China and MexicoMiguel Hidalgo MartinezChapter 4Migration, expatriation, and heterosexuality in a globalized city – SingaporeLiangni Sally Liu Chapter 5City-regions reconsideredAllen J. ScottPART II LATIN AMERICA: OPENING, GLOBALIZATION AND CRISISChapter 6Global Cities in Peripheral Countries: Argentina in the New International Labor DivisionUlises Girolimo, and Patricio FeldmanChapter 7Regional Planning, Development, and Governance of Metropolitan Secondary City Clusters: Case Study of Santiago and Central Chile RegionBrian Roberts, José Tomás Videla, and Marcela Allué NualartChapter 8Change of the society consumption in Peru during the globalization processNadia Nora Urriola CanchariChapter 9Urban Conflict and Transnational Crime in Latin American CitiesJohn P. SullivanChapter 10The emergence of a global urban region: The Urban Corridor automotive and aeronautical in the Central - Bajío Region, Mexico Adrián Moreno MataChapter 11Economy, Inequalities and Cities. Chinese influence in Latin AmericaPablo BaisottiConclusionContributors

Pablo Baisotti is an External Researcher at the University of Brasilia, Department of Latin American Studies (ELA).

By the end of 2022, the world's population numbered just over 7.8 billion. 56.4 percent of these live in large urban concentrations and almost two-thirds of that agglomeration is located in Asian and Latin American cities. That is the quantitative context of the book edited by Professor Pablo Baisotti. It is clear that the most fundamental political and social challenges of the Asian continent and the Latin American region in the very coming decades will revolve around the structure and institutional functioning of urban concentration. In the Latin American region, meanwhile, other aspects of urban culture are observable, as listed in this book. It highlights, for instance, a great mobility of diverse groups and social strata among large cities. In more than one case, the population growth of some urban concentrations in the region is due to a growing interurban mobility, which has increased the number of inhabitants of some cities with immigrants from others, without noticeable altering the vegetative growth of large cities. The political effects have been obvious, though, since this mobility has gravitated to the presence of new ideological and institutional references. This is a book that comprehensively covers the vicissitudes of urban agglomerations during the last twenty years. From their respective points of view, the authors converge in acknowledging the relevance of this issue from their respective realities. In short, it is an indispensable work in these matters and therefore it is convenient to have it at hand.

• Introduction by the editorPART I ASIA: CENTRE OF GROWTH AND GLOBALITYChapter 1Chinese Cities from the Ground to the Sky: Building Suzhou as a Global City beyond the TraditionRaffaele PerniceChapter 2 The Urban Geographies of a Small Island: A Dialectical Spatial Approach Gang HongChapter 3The rise of Chongqing and Queretaro: the territorial dimension of the divergent trajectories of two emerging urban economies in China and MexicoMiguel Hidalgo MartinezChapter 4Migration, expatriation, and heterosexuality in a globalized city – SingaporeLiangni Sally Liu Chapter 5City-regions reconsideredAllen J. ScottPART II LATIN AMERICA: OPENING, GLOBALIZATION AND CRISISChapter 6Global Cities in Peripheral Countries: Argentina in the New International Labor DivisionUlises Girolimo, and Patricio FeldmanChapter 7Regional Planning, Development, and Governance of Metropolitan Secondary City Clusters: Case Study of Santiago and Central Chile RegionBrian Roberts, José Tomás Videla, and Marcela Allué NualartChapter 8Change of the society consumption in Peru during the globalization processNadia Nora Urriola CanchariChapter 9Urban Conflict and Transnational Crime in Latin American CitiesJohn P. SullivanChapter 10The emergence of a global urban region: The Urban Corridor automotive and aeronautical in the Central - Bajío Region, Mexico Adrián Moreno MataChapter 11Economy, Inequalities and Cities. Chinese influence in Latin AmericaPablo BaisottiConclusionContributors

Pablo Baisotti is an External Researcher at the University of Brasilia, Department of Latin American Studies (ELA).

By the end of 2022, the world's population numbered just over 7.8 billion. 56.4 percent of these live in large urban concentrations and almost two-thirds of that agglomeration is located in Asian and Latin American cities. That is the quantitative context of the book edited by Professor Pablo Baisotti. It is clear that the most fundamental political and social challenges of the Asian continent and the Latin American region in the very coming decades will revolve around the structure and institutional functioning of urban concentration. In the Latin American region, meanwhile, other aspects of urban culture are observable, as listed in this book. It highlights, for instance, a great mobility of diverse groups and social strata among large cities. In more than one case, the population growth of some urban concentrations in the region is due to a growing interurban mobility, which has increased the number of inhabitants of some cities with immigrants from others, without noticeable altering the vegetative growth of large cities. The political effects have been obvious, though, since this mobility has gravitated to the presence of new ideological and institutional references. This is a book that comprehensively covers the vicissitudes of urban agglomerations during the last twenty years. From their respective points of view, the authors converge in acknowledging the relevance of this issue from their respective realities. In short, it is an indispensable work in these matters and therefore it is convenient to have it at hand.

• Introduction by the editorPART I ASIA: CENTRE OF GROWTH AND GLOBALITYChapter 1Chinese Cities from the Ground to the Sky: Building Suzhou as a Global City beyond the TraditionRaffaele PerniceChapter 2 The Urban Geographies of a Small Island: A Dialectical Spatial Approach Gang HongChapter 3The rise of Chongqing and Queretaro: the territorial dimension of the divergent trajectories of two emerging urban economies in China and MexicoMiguel Hidalgo MartinezChapter 4Migration, expatriation, and heterosexuality in a globalized city – SingaporeLiangni Sally Liu Chapter 5City-regions reconsideredAllen J. ScottPART II LATIN AMERICA: OPENING, GLOBALIZATION AND CRISISChapter 6Global Cities in Peripheral Countries: Argentina in the New International Labor DivisionUlises Girolimo, and Patricio FeldmanChapter 7Regional Planning, Development, and Governance of Metropolitan Secondary City Clusters: Case Study of Santiago and Central Chile RegionBrian Roberts, José Tomás Videla, and Marcela Allué NualartChapter 8Change of the society consumption in Peru during the globalization processNadia Nora Urriola CanchariChapter 9Urban Conflict and Transnational Crime in Latin American CitiesJohn P. SullivanChapter 10The emergence of a global urban region: The Urban Corridor automotive and aeronautical in the Central - Bajío Region, Mexico Adrián Moreno MataChapter 11Economy, Inequalities and Cities. Chinese influence in Latin AmericaPablo BaisottiConclusionContributors