Relocating global cities

Rowman & Littlefield

2006

xviii, 226 p.

978-0-7425-4122-1

Thinking through global cities / M. Mark Amen, Kevin Archer, and M. Martin Bosman -- In London's long shadow : Frankfurt in the European space of flows / Jonathan V. Beaverstock ... [et al.] -- Johannesburg 1986-2030 : a quest to regain world status / Keith S.O. Beavon -- Bangkok : intentional world city / Michael Douglass and Pornpan Boonchuen -- Laboring in the periphery : the place of Manila in the global economy / James A. Tyner -- Place-imaging Tampa in the age of globalization / M. Mark Amen and M. Martin Bosman -- Gentrification, globalization, and governance : the reterritorialization of Sydney's city-state / Scott Salmon -- Reluctant globalizers : the paradoxes of "glocal" development in Brussels / Erik Swyngedouw and Johan Moyersoen -- The processes underlying Caracas as a globalizing city / Miguel Lacabana and Cecilia Cariola -- Reconsidering the social structuration of globalization / M. Mark Amen, Kevin Archer, and M. Martin Bosman.

Drawing on eight case studies from key cities on the periphery of global cities literature, Relocating Global Cities argues that all cities are globalizing in important ways. Case studies of Frankfurt, Johannesburg, Bangkok, Manila, Tampa, Sydney, Brussels, and Caracas provide the basis for an alternative theoretical approach to global city formation. Reconciling a market-based understanding and an agency-based understanding of global cities, this book proposes that globalization and cities are mutually constituted by the global political economy engaging with transnational and local agents. The volume proposes an alternate theoretical approach to the literature of globalization while remaining grounded in concrete discussions of key cities. Its expert contributors reconcile the conflicting ways in which two dominant paradigms, one emphasizing market forces and the other the unique actions of individuals and groups, embody our understanding of global cities. This book will be of interest to students and researchers alike, and is a perfect complement to texts in Urban Studies and Globalization.

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