Global Cities and Global Order

Global Cities and Global Order
Title Global Cities and Global Order PDF eBook
Author Simon Curtis
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 237
Release 2016
Genre Political Science
ISBN 0198744013

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This volume investigates the changing nature of cities in the international system, and their increasing prominence in global governance and global order.

Global Cities

Global Cities
Title Global Cities PDF eBook
Author Robert Gottlieb
Publisher MIT Press
Pages 471
Release 2017-05-19
Genre Political Science
ISBN 0262338874

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How Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and China deal with such urban environmental issues as ports, goods movement, air pollution, water quality, transportation, and public space. Over the past four decades, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and key urban regions of China have emerged as global cities—in financial, political, cultural, environmental, and demographic terms. In this book, Robert Gottlieb and Simon Ng trace the global emergence of these urban areas and compare their responses to a set of six urban environmental issues. These cities have different patterns of development: Los Angeles has been the quintessential horizontal city, the capital of sprawl; Hong Kong is dense and vertical; China's new megacities in the Pearl River Delta, created by an explosion in industrial development and a vast migration from rural to urban areas, combine the vertical and the horizontal. All three have experienced major environmental changes in a relatively short period of time. Gottlieb and Ng document how each has dealt with challenges posed by ports and the movement of goods, air pollution (Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and urban China are all notorious for their hazardous air quality), water supply (all three places are dependent on massive transfers of water) and water quality, the food system (from seed to table), transportation, and public and private space. Finally they discuss the possibility of change brought about by policy initiatives and social movements.

Global Cities, Governance and Diplomacy

Global Cities, Governance and Diplomacy
Title Global Cities, Governance and Diplomacy PDF eBook
Author Michele Acuto
Publisher Routledge
Pages 215
Release 2013
Genre History
ISBN 0415660882

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The book argues that looking at global cities can bring about three fundamental advantages on traditional IR paradigms. First, it facilitates an eclectic turn towards more nuanced analyses of world politics. Second, it widens the horizon of the discipline through a multiscalar image of global governance. Third, it underscores how global cities have a strategic diplomatic positioning when it comes to core contemporary challenges such as climate change.

The Global City

The Global City
Title The Global City PDF eBook
Author Saskia Sassen
Publisher Princeton University Press
Pages 481
Release 2013-04-04
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1400847486

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This classic work chronicles how New York, London, and Tokyo became command centers for the global economy and in the process underwent a series of massive and parallel changes. What distinguishes Sassen's theoretical framework is the emphasis on the formation of cross-border dynamics through which these cities and the growing number of other global cities begin to form strategic transnational networks. All the core data in this new edition have been updated, while the preface and epilogue discuss the relevant trends in globalization since the book originally came out in 1991.

Global Cities

Global Cities
Title Global Cities PDF eBook
Author Greg Clark
Publisher Brookings Institution Press
Pages 224
Release 2016-11-29
Genre Political Science
ISBN 0815728921

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Why have some cities become great global urban centers, and what cities will be future leaders? From Athens and Rome in ancient times to New York and Singapore today, a handful of cities have stood out as centers of global economic, military, or political power. In the twenty-first century, the number of truly global cities is greater than ever before, reflecting the globalization of both economic and political power. In Global Cities: A Short History, Greg Clark, an internationally renowned British urbanist, examines the enduring forces—such as trade, migration, war, and technology—that have enabled some cities to emerge from the pack into global leadership. Much more than a historical review, Clark’s book looks to the future, examining the trends that are transforming cities around the world as well as the new challenges all global cities, increasingly, will face. Which cities will be the global leaders of tomorrow? What are the common issues and opportunities they will face? What kinds of leadership can make these cities competitive and resilient? Clark offers answers to these and similar questions in a book that will be of interest to anyone who lives in or is affected by the world’s great urban areas.

Global Cities

Global Cities
Title Global Cities PDF eBook
Author Anthony King
Publisher Routledge
Pages 211
Release 2015-03-27
Genre Science
ISBN 1317504178

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Since the late 1970s the role of key world cities such as Los Angeles, New York and London as centres of global control and co-ordination has come under increasing scrutiny. This book provides an overview and critique of work on the global context of metropolitan growth, world city formation and the theory it has generated. Suggesting ‘post-imperialism’ as the most appropriate framework for analysis, the author demonstrates the extent to which urban and regional development, both in Britain and elsewhere, were linked to a colonial mode of production, and highlights the effects of its disappearance. Against this background, the author charts the transformation of London from imperial capital in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to world city in the capitalist world economy of today.

Globalizing Cities

Globalizing Cities
Title Globalizing Cities PDF eBook
Author Peter Marcuse
Publisher John Wiley & Sons
Pages 399
Release 2011-07-18
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1444399616

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This exciting collection of original essays provides students and professionals with an international and comparative examination of changes in global cities, revealing a growing pattern of social and spatial division or polarization.