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Globalizing Cities (eBook, PDF)

A New Spatial Order?

Redaktion: Marcuse, Peter; Kempen, Ronald Van

Beschreibung

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.

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Autor

Peter Marcuse is Professor of Urban Planning at Columbia University in New York City. He has also taught at the University of California at Los Angeles, as well as universities in Johannesburg, Weimar, and Sao Paulo. He has been President of the Los Angeles City Planning Commission, and a member of a Community Board in New York City. A lawyer as well as planner, he has written widely on comparative housing and planning issues. Ronald van Kempen is Associate Professor of urban geography at the Urban Research Centre Utrecht at Utrecht University. His current research focuses on the links between spatial segregation, social exclusion and the development of cities. He has published widely on these subjects. He is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Housing and the Built Environment.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780470712634
• Artikelnr.: 38215370

Rezensionen

"This book is a welcome addition to the rapidly growing literatureon global cities ... The individual contributors remain closelyon-message and the editors are to be commended for providing a veryclear statement of the central argument and for distilling thearguments into a comprehensive and convincing conclusion...Thespecialised nature of the topic, and the fact that this volume willbe of most interest to research and final-year students of urbanstudies rather than to first-or second-year undergraduates. Amongsuch an audience, it merits a wide readership." David Clark,Coventry University

"This is a highly valuable book, combining theoretical argumentswith detailed empirical work. This book broadens the scholarlydiscussion of

global cities and offers important insights into theinterpretation of local and global processes in a wide range ofsettings." H-Urban by Mark D. Bjelland, Department of Geography,Gustavus Adolphus College, Minnesota.

"Globalizing cities, a new spatial order? is a welcomeaddition to a growing scholarly literature on the processes ofglobalization ... this volume is a substantial contribution to whatis perhaps one of the most important issues confronting the futureof cities." Progress in Development Studies

"These excellent essays focus primarily on recent changes in thespatial organization of selected large metropolitan areas ... Byconcentrating on the details, the authors have liberated us fromthe glosses of the global cities literature and prepared us torevise our generalizations. The debate they have opened will engageus for at least the next decade." European PlanningStudies