Acuto / Steele Global City Challenges

Debating a Concept, Improving the Practice
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-137-28687-1
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 278 Seiten

Reihe: Political Science and International Studies (R0)

The contributors illustrate what twin analytical and practical challenges emerge from juxtaposing cultural, economic, historical, postcolonial, virtual, architectural, literary, security and political stances to the concept of the 'global city'.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Acuto, M.

Steele, W.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; Michele Acuto and Wendy Steele 2. The Global City Tradition; Christof Parnreiter 3. The Network Dimension; Ben Derudder, Michael Hoyler and Peter J. Taylor 4. The Economic and Financial Dimensions; David Bassens 5. The Historical Dimension; Peter Rimmer and Howard Dick 6. The Postcolonial Dimension; Vanessa Watson 7. The Literary Dimension; Sheila Hones 8. The Virtual Dimension; Mark Graham 9. The Cultural Dimension; Oli Mould 10. The Architectural Dimension; Kerwin Datu 11. The Geopolitical Dimension; Michele Acuto 12. The Security Dimension; David Murakami-Wood 13. Global City Challenges: A view from the field; Glen Searle Conclusions; Michele Acuto and Wendy Steele Afterword; Roger Keil

Über Autor(innen)

Michele Acuto, University of Oxford, UK
David Bassens, Free University of Brussels, Belgium
Kerwin Datu, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), UK
Ben Derudder, Ghent University, Belgium
Howard Dick, University of Melbourne, Australia
Mark Graham, University of Oxford, UK
Sheila Hones, University of Tokyo, Japan
Michael Hoyler, Loughborough University, UK
Roger Keil, York University, Canada
Oli Mould, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
Peter Rimmer, Australian National University
Glen Searle, University of Queensland, Australia
Wendy Steele, Griffith University, Australia
Peter J. Taylor, Northumbria University, UK
Vanessa Watson, University of Cape Town, South Africa