Globalizing Cities: A New Spatial Order?

This exciting collection of essays provides an international and comparative examination of changes in the spaces and forms of cities, revealing a growing pattern of spatial division and polarization.
The book begins with the editors′ hypothesis that there is a new spatial order within cities as the result of the process of globalization. Current issues are examined including the effects of the intersection of global issues – such as economic restructuring and migration – with national and local
influences, such as race, politics and culture. The international contributors to the volume use a series of case studies of cities ranging from New York to Calcutta, Frankfurt to Tokyo, Rio to Singapore, Brussels to Sydney, to discuss actual contemporary urban spatial change. In the concluding chapter, the editors summarize the contributions and present readers with a modification of the original
hypothesis.

Spis treści:
List of Figures.
List of Maps.
List of Tables.
List of Contributors.
Preface. Acknowledgements.
1. Introduction: Peter Marcuse and Ronald van Kempen.
2. The Unavoidable Continuities of the City: Robert A. Beauregard and Anne Haila.
3. From the Metropolis to Globalization: The Dialectics of Race and Urban Form: William W. Goldsmith.
4. From Colonial City to Globalizing City?: The Far–From–Complete Spatial Transformation of Calcutta: Sanjoy Chakravorty.
5. Rio de Janeiro: Emerging Dualization in a Historically Unequal City: Luiz Cesar Queiroz de Ribeiro and Edward Telles.
6. Singapore: The Changing Residential Landscape in a Winner City: Leo van Grunsven.
7. Tokyo: Patterns of Familiarity and Partitions of Difference: Paul Waley.
8. Still a Global City: The Racial and Ethnic Segmentation of New York: John Logan.
9. Brussels: Post–Fordist Polarization in a Fordist Spatial Canvass: Christian Kesteloot.
10. The Imprint of the Post–Fordist Transiti on on Australian Cities: Blair Badcock.
11. The Globalization of Frankfurt am Main: Core, Periphery and Social Conflict: Roger Keil and Klaus Ronneberger.
12. Conclusion: The New Spatial Order: Peter Marcuse and Ronald van Kempen.
List of References.
Index.

Nota biograficzna:
Peter Marcuse is Professor of Urban Planning at Columbia University in New York City. He has also taught at the University of California at Los Angeles, as well as universities in Johannesburg, Weimar, and Sao Paulo. He has been President of the Los Angeles City Planning Commission, and a member of a Community Board in New York City. A lawyer as well as planner, he has written widely on comparative housing and planning issues.
Ronald van Kempen is Associate Professor of urban geography at the Urban Research Centre Utrecht at Utrecht University. His current research focuses on the links between spatial segregation, social exclusion and the development of cities. He has published widely on these subjects. He is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Housing and the Built Environment.

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This exciting collection of essays provides an international and comparative examination of changes in the spaces and forms of cities, revealing a growing pattern of spatial division and polarization.
The book begins with the editors′ hypothesis that there is a new spatial order within cities as the result of the process of globalization. Current issues are examined including the effects of the intersection of global issues – such as economic restructuring and migration – with national and local
influences, such as race, politics and culture. The international contributors to the volume use a series of case studies of cities ranging from New York to Calcutta, Frankfurt to Tokyo, Rio to Singapore, Brussels to Sydney, to discuss actual contemporary urban spatial change. In the concluding chapter, the editors summarize the contributions and present readers with a modification of the original
hypothesis.