ABSTRACT
Arguing that the focus in global urban studies on cities such as New York, London, Tokyo in the global North, Mexico City and Shanghai in the developing world, and other major nodes of the world economy, has skewed the concept of the global city toward economics, this volume gathers a diverse group of contributors to focus on smaller and less economically dominant cities. It highlights other important and relatively ignored themes such as cultural globalization, alternative geographies of the global, and the influence of deeper urban histories (particularly those relating to colonialism) in order to advance an alternative view of the global city.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|58 pages
Urban Present and past
chapter 2|18 pages
The Trajectories of Two “asian Tigers”
chapter 3|21 pages
Shaping Politics in Chinatown
part II|92 pages
Urban Contraction and Expansion
chapter 4|16 pages
Staggering Job Loss, a Shrinking Revenue Base, and Grinding Decline
chapter 5|16 pages
From Cars to Casinos
chapter 6|20 pages
From a Fishing Village via an Instant City to a Secondary Global City
chapter 7|23 pages
The Third Coming of China's Special Economic Zones
chapter 8|16 pages
Social Accountability in African Cities
part III|87 pages
The Contested Urban Arena