ABSTRACT
The newly revised Globalizing Cities Reader reflects how the geographies of theory have recently shifted away from the western vantage points from which much of the classic work in this field was developed.
The expanded volume continues to make available many of the original and foundational works that underpin the research field, while expanding coverage to familiarize students with new theoretical and epistemological positions as well as emerging research foci and horizons. It contains 38 new chapters, including key writings on globalizing cities from leading thinkers such as John Friedmann, Michael Peter Smith, Saskia Sassen, Peter Taylor, Manuel Castells, Anthony King, Jennifer Robinson, Ananya Roy, and Fulong Wu. The new Reader reflects the fact that world and global city studies have evolved in exciting and wide-ranging ways, and the very notion of a distinct "global" class of cities has recently been called into question. The sections examine the foundations of the field and processes of urban restructuring and global city formation. A large number of new entries focus on the emerging urban worlds of Asia, Latin America and Africa, including Beijing, Bogota, Cairo, Cape Town, Delhi, Istanbul, Medellin, Mumbai, Phnom Penh, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, and Shanghai. The book also presents cases off the conventional map of global cities research, such as smaller cities and less known urban regions that are undergoing processes of globalization.
The book is a key resource for students and scholars alike who seek an accessible compendium of the intellectual foundations of global urban studies as well as an overview of the emergent patterns of early 21st century urbanization and associated sociopolitical contestation around the world.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part One|74 pages
Foundations
chapter 3|9 pages
“World city formation: an agenda for research and action”
chapter 5|10 pages
“Urban specialization in the world system: an investigation of historical cases”
chapter 6|6 pages
“Accumulation and comparative urban systems”
chapter 7|6 pages
“The world-system perspective and urbanization”
chapter 8|7 pages
“Global city formation in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles: an historical perspective”
chapter 9|7 pages
“Global and world cities: a view from off the map”
part Two|68 pages
Pathways
chapter 12|7 pages
“The city as a landscape of power: London and New York as global financial capitals”
chapter 13|8 pages
“Detroit and Houston: two cities in global perspective”
chapter 14|8 pages
“The stimulus of a little confusion: a contemporary comparison of Amsterdam and Los Angeles”
chapter 16|7 pages
“From ‘state-owned’ to ‘City Inc.’: the re-territorialization of the state in Shanghai”
chapter 17|7 pages
“The dream of Delhi as a global city”
chapter 18|7 pages
“‘Fourth world’ cities in the global economy: the case of Phnom Penh, Cambodia”
chapter 19|6 pages
“Medellín and Bogotá: the global cities of the other globalization”
part Three|68 pages
Relations
chapter 20|1 pages
Prologue “Specification of the world city network”
chapter 21|6 pages
“Local and global: cities in network society”
chapter 22|7 pages
“Comparing London and Frankfurt as world cities: a relational study of contemporary urban change”
chapter 23|8 pages
“Global grids of glass: on global cities, telecommunications and planetary urban networks”
chapter 24|7 pages
“Global cities and the spread of infectious disease: the case of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in Toronto, Canada”
chapter 25|7 pages
“Flying high (in the competitive sky): conceptualizing the role of airports in global city-regions through ‘aero-regionalism’”
chapter 26|8 pages
“One package at a time: the distributive world city”
chapter 27|7 pages
“Global cities between biopolitics and necropolitics: (in)security and circuits of knowledge in the global city network”
chapter 28|7 pages
“The virtual palimpsest of the global city network”
chapter 29|6 pages
“Relationality/territoriality: toward conceptualization of cities in the world”
part Four|66 pages
Regulations
chapter 30|3 pages
Prologue “The global city as world order”
chapter 31|6 pages
“Globalization and the rise of city-regions”
chapter 32|8 pages
“Global cities, ‘glocal’ states: global city formation and state territorial restructuring in contemporary Europe”
chapter 33|8 pages
“Global cities and developmental states: Tokyo and Seoul”
chapter 34|7 pages
“World city formation on the Asia Pacific Rim: poverty, ‘everyday’ forms of civil society and environmental management”
chapter 35|6 pages
“New globalism, new urbanism: gentrification as global urban strategy”
chapter 36|7 pages
“Between world history and state formation: new perspectives on Africa’s cities”
chapter 37|6 pages
“The ‘right to the city’: institutional imperatives of a developmental state”
chapter 38|7 pages
“Global Cities vs. ‘global cities’: rethinking contemporary urbanism as public ecology”
part Five|55 pages
Contestations
chapter 39|1 pages
Prologue “From Tahrir Square to Emaar Square: Cairo’s private road to a private city”
chapter 42|7 pages
“Urban social movements in an era of globalization”
chapter 44|7 pages
“Global city building in China and its discontents”
chapter 45|6 pages
“Between ghetto and globe: remaking urban life in Africa”
part Six|58 pages
Culture
chapter 52|6 pages
“The transnational capitalist class and contemporary architecture in globalizing cities”
chapter 53|6 pages
“Shanghai nightscapes and ethnosexual contact zones”
chapter 54|6 pages
“Graffiti or street art? Negotiating the moral geographies of the creative city”
chapter 55|6 pages
“Spaces and networks of musical creativity in the city”
part Seven|82 pages
Frontiers