The World's Cities

Contrasting Regional, National, and Global Perspectives
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-415-89486-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 424 Seiten, Format (B × H): 188 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 722 g

Reihe: The Metropolis and Modern Life

The World’s Cities offers instructors and students in higher education an accessible introduction to the three major perspectives influencing city-regions worldwide: City-Regions in a World System; Nested City-Regions; and The City-Region as the Engine of Economic Activity/Growth.

The book provides students with helpful essays on each perspective, case studies to illustrate each major viewpoint, and discussion questions following each reading. The World’s Cities concludes with an original essay by the editor that helps students understand how an analysis incorporating a combination of theoretical perspectives and factors can provide a richer appreciation of the world’s city dynamics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jacobs, A.J.

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regional- & Raumplanung Stadtplanung, Kommunale Planung
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Städtebau, Stadtplanung (Architektur)
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Cities and Regions Evolving in an Ever-Changing World; 1: City-Regions in a World System: An Overview; 1: Where We Stand: A Decade of World City Research (1995); 2: Cities in a World Economy (2006); 3: Hierarchical Tendencies and Regional Patterns in the World City Network … (2003); 4: Mexico City: The Making of a Global City? (2002); 5: Location Theory in Reverse? Location for Global Production in the IT Industry of Bangalore (2008); 6: Building Shanghai: Historical Lessons from China's Gateway (2008); 7: Race, Space and the Post-Fordist Spatial Order of Johannesburg (2008); 8: Global Dubai or Dubaization (2010); 2: Nested City-Regions; 9: The Nested City (2003); 10: New York, Chicago, Los Angeles: America's Global Cities (1999); 11: Race, Fragmentation, and Divergent Outcomes in Detroit and Toronto (2013); 12: Planning Taipei (2006); 13: Expanding Income Stratification in the Tokyo Region (2013); 14: Experiencing Jakarta (2008); 15: Actor Networks and Hybrid Developmental States: Malaysia's Multimedia Super-corridor and New York's Silicon Alley (2003); 16: Ulsan: South Korea's Great Industrial City (2013); 3: The City-Region as the Engine of Economic Activity/Growth: An Overview; 17: Regions, Globalization, Development (2003); 18: The Bratislava-Žilina Auto Corridor: Capitalist Agglomeration in the Post-Socialist CEE (2013); 19: The Development Industry and Urban Redevelopment in New York and London (2001); 20: Hong Kong: An Entrepreneurial City in Action (2000); 21: Innovation in Europe: A Tale of Networks, Knowledge and Trade in Five European Cities (2002); 22: From World Cities to Gateway Cities: Extending the Boundaries of Globalization Theory (2000); 23: From Modernist to Market Urbanism: The Transformation of New Belgrade (2011); 24: Collaborative Regionalism and FDI Growth: The Cases of Mississippi's PUL Alliance and Alabama–Georgia's Auto Valley Partnership (2013); Conclusions and Lessons; The Nexus City Model: Bridging the Local, Regional, National, and International Contexts

Über Autor(innen)

A. J. Jacobs is an Associate Professor and the Director of Graduate Studies in East Carolina University’s Department of Sociology. He was an Assistant Professor in the University of Cincinnati’s School of Planning, a Visiting Associate Professor in Hosei University’s Faculty of Business (in Tokyo, Japan), and a Visiting Assistant Professor in Michigan State University’s Urban Planning Program. He received his Ph.D. in Sociology–Urban Studies from Michigan State University and his Master’s in Regional Planning from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.