Global Port Cities in North America: Urbanization Processes and Global Production Networks

ISBN-13: 9781138547131 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 264 str.

Boris Vormann

Opis

This book explores globalization processes under neoliberalism and their impacts on sociospatial dynamics in North American global port cities since the mid-1970s, shedding new light on the relationship between urbanization and globalization processes and the development of port cities as a reflection of larger multi-scalar and multi-causal processes.

Spis treści

Part I: Introduction: Global Cities in Global Production Networks  1. Globalization’s Hidden Anchors  2. Blind Spots of Globalization  Part II: Discourses of Urban Progress: Creating a Postindustrial Utopia  3. The Logistics Revolution and the End of Fordism  4. The Redundancy of Fordist Infrastructures  5. Imagining a Post-industrial Future  Part III: Frictionless Supply Chains: Utopia’s Negative Externalities  6. How Social and Ecological Costs Have Been Externalized  7. Who Pays?: A Geography of Costs  8. Secure Flows, Optimized Networks  Part IV: Conclusions: State Legitimacy and the Public Good  9. Infrastructures and Spectacles of the Global  10. Arguments of False Necessity: Discontinuities and Potential Futures

O autorze

Boris Vormann is a lecturer in political science at Freie Universität’s John-F.-Kennedy Institute and associated researcher at the Université du Québec à Montréal.