Global City Regions
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Global City Regions
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Author : Roger Simmonds
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2000
Global City Regions written by Roger Simmonds and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Cities and towns categories.
Based on funded research of 13 city regions across three continents, this comparative study looks at changes in land use since 1970. The socio-economic and physical forms of city regions have also been examined for comparative study.
Global City Regions
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Author : Allen J. Scott
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2001-01-25
Global City Regions written by Allen J. Scott and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-01-25 with Business & Economics categories.
There are now more than three hundred city-regions around the world with populations greater than one million. These city-regions are expanding vigorously, and they present many new and deep challenges to researchers and policy-makers in both the more developed and less developed parts of the world. The processes of global economic integration and accelerated urban growth make traditional planning and policy strategies in these regions increasingly inadequate, while more effective approaches remain largely in various stages of hypothesis and experimentation. 'Global City-Regions' represents a multifaceted effort to deal with the many different issues raised by these developments. It seeks at once to define the question of global city-regions and to describe the internal and external dynamics that shape them; it proposes a theorization of global city-regions based on their economic and political responses to intensifying levels of globalization; and it offers a number of policy insights into the severe social problems that confront global city-regions as they come face to face with an economically and politically neoliberal world. At a moment when globalization is increasingly subject to critical scrutiny in many different quarters, this book provides a timely overview of its effects on urban and regional development, one of its most important (but perhaps least understood) corollaries. The book also offers a series of nuanced visions of alternative possible futures.
Global City Regions
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Author : Gary Hack
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-09-05
Global City Regions written by Gary Hack and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-05 with Architecture categories.
A unique comparative study based on funded research, of eleven city regions across three continents looking at changes over the last 30 years. Detailed changes in land use are presented here with series of maps prepared especially for the study. The socio-economic and physical forms of city regions have been examined for comparative study and the findings will be of interest to all those concerned with urban development in their professional and academic work. The book features numerous maps which underline research findings. Cities covered are: Ankara, Bangkok, Boston, Madrid, Randstad, San Diego, Chile, Sao Paulo, Seattle and the Central Puget, Taipei, Tokyo, West Midlands.
The Global Cities Reader
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Author : Neil Brenner
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 2006
The Global Cities Reader written by Neil Brenner and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Architecture categories.
This book contains fifty selections from classic writings by authors such as John Friedmann, Michael Peter Smith, Saskia Sassen, Peter Taylor, Manuel Castells and Anthony King, as well as major contributions by other international scholars of global city formation.
The Making Of Global City Regions
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Author : Klaus Segbers
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2007
The Making Of Global City Regions written by Klaus Segbers and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Business & Economics categories.
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Effects Of Globalisation On City Regions
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Author : Ansgar Baums
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2005-05-18
Effects Of Globalisation On City Regions written by Ansgar Baums and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-05-18 with Business & Economics categories.
Essay from the year 2005 in the subject Economics - International Economic Relations, grade: 20, University of St Andrews (Department of Economics), language: English, abstract: The debate about the effects of globalisation on cities is controversial. On the one hand, scientists and journalists predicted “the end of the city” due to technological change, especially in the area of telecommunications – implying that an increased number of home-workers and the possibilities of video-conferences would make calm suburbs or rural areas more attractive in comparison to a grid-locked and expensive downtown area.1 Yet, whenever the abstract idea of globalisation is illustrated in newspapers or TV, it is not a suburb or the green hills of Fife that are shown. Rather, symbols of globalisation like Manhattan or Tokyo look more like Ridley Scott’s “Nighttown” in Bladerunner. In contrast to the prediction of declining cities, globalisation seems to boost the growth of cities in a way that many scientists – influenced by the ideas of Alfred Marshall and Joseph Schumpeter started to write about “global cities”, “world-cities” or “global city-regions”. Leamer/Storper called global cities the “big winners” of the Internet Age.2 But what are exactly the effects of globalisation on the functions and economy of cities? In order to examine these effects, it is useful to address two questions: (1) why do firms choose cities as a location in general? (section 2.1); and (2) how does globalisation affect this reasoning? (section 2.2). Section 3 summarises the results.
Cities In Globalization
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Author : Peter Taylor
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2006-11-20
Cities In Globalization written by Peter Taylor and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-11-20 with Architecture categories.
Despite traditionally being a strong research topic in urban studies, inter-city relations had become grossly neglected until recently, when it was placed back on the research agenda with the advent of studies of world/global cities. More recently the ‘external relations’ of cities have taken their place alongside ‘internal relations’ within cities to constitute the full nature of cities. This collection of essays on how and why cities are connecting to each other in a globalizing world provides evidence for a new city-centered geography that is emerging in the twenty-first century. Cities in Globalization covers four key themes beginning with the different ways of measuring a ‘world city network’, ranging from analyses of corporate structures to airline passenger flows. Second is the recent European advances in studying ‘urban systems’ which are compared to the Anglo-American city networks approach. These chapters add conceptual vigour to traditional themes and provide findings on European cities in globalization. Thirdly the political implications of these new geographies of flows are considered in a variety of contexts: the localism of city planning, specialist ‘political world cities’, and the ‘war on terror’. Finally, there are a series of chapters that critically review the state of our knowledge on contemporary relations between cities in globalization. Cities in Globalization provides an up-to-date assembly of leading American and European researchers reporting their ideas on the critical issue of how cities are faring in contemporary globalization and is highly illustrated throughout with over forty figures and tables.
Relocating Global Cities
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Author : Michael Mark Amen
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2006
Relocating Global Cities written by Michael Mark Amen and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Political Science categories.
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.
The Polycentric Metropolis
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Author : Peter Hall
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2012-06-25
The Polycentric Metropolis written by Peter Hall and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-25 with Architecture categories.
A new 21st century urban phenomenon is emerging: the networked polycentric mega-city region. Developed around one or more cities of global status, it is characterized by a cluster of cities and towns, physically separate but intensively networked in a complex spatial division of labour. This book describes and analyses eight such regions in North West Europe. For the first time, this work shows how businesses interrelate and communicate in geographical space - within each region, between them, and with the wider world. It goes on to demonstrate the profound consequences for spatial planning and regional development in Europe - and, by implication, other similar urban regions of the world. The Polycentric Metropolis introduces the concept of a mega-city region, analyses its characteristics, examines the issues surrounding regional identities, and discusses policy ramifications and outcomes for infrastructure, transport systems and regulation. Packed with high quality maps, case study data and written in a clear style by highly experienced authors, this will be an insightful and significant analysis suitable for professionals in urban planning and policy, environmental consultancies, business and investment communities, technical libraries, and students in urban studies, geography, economics and town/spatial planning.
Governance And Planning Of Mega City Regions
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Author : Jiang Xu
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2010-09-13
Governance And Planning Of Mega City Regions written by Jiang Xu and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-09-13 with Architecture categories.
Neoliberalism’s market revolution has had a tremendous effect on contemporary mega-city regions. The negative consequences of market-oriented politics for territorial growth have been recognized. While a lot of attention has been given to how planners and policy makers are fighting back political fragmentation through innovative governance and planning, little has been done to reveal such practices through an international comparative perspective. Governance and Planning of Mega-City Regions provides a comparative treatment and examination of how new approaches in governance and planning are reshaping mega-city regions around the world. The contributors highlight how European mega-city regions are evolving and how strategic intervention is being redefined to enable the integration of urban qualities in a multi-level governance environment; how traditional federal countries in North America and Australia see the promise of major policies and development initiatives finally moving ahead to herald a more strategic intervention at national and regional scales; and how transitional economies in China witness the rise of state strategies to control the articulation of scales and to reassert the functional importance of state in a growing diffused power context. This book offers case studies written from a variety of theoretical and political perspectives by world leading scholars. It will appeal to upper level undergraduates, postgraduates, researchers, and policymakers interested in urban and regional planning, geography, sociology, public administrations and development studies.