Rethinking Global Urbanism: Comparative Insights from Secondary Cities

ISBN-13: 9780415892230 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 288 str.

Xiangming Chen; Ahmed Kanna

Opis

This volume gathers a diverse group of contributors to focus on small and less economically dominant cities. It highlights relatively ignored themes such as cultural globalisation, alternative geographies of the global, and the influence of deeper urban histories in order to advance an alternative view of the global city.

Spis treści

Preface  Tim Bunnell and James D. Sidaway.  Acknowledgments.  Introduction: Bringing the Less Familiar Cities In and Together  Ahmed Kanna and Xiangming Chen  Part I: Urban Present and Past: How Culture, History, and Politics Shape Secondary Global and Local Cityscapes  1. Competitive Globalization and Urban Change: The Allure of Cultural Strategies  Sharon Zukin  2. The Trajectories of Two "Asian Tigers": The Colonial Roots of Capitalism in Dubai and Singapore  Ahmed Kanna  3. Shaping Politics in Chinatown: The Intersection of Global Politics and Community Politics in Wartime and Cold War San Francisco  Scott H. Tang  Part II: Urban Contraction and Expansion: Economic Restructuring and Governance in De-Globalizing and Globalizing Secondary Cities  4. Staggering Job Loss, a Shrinking Revenue Base, and Grinding Decline: Springfield, Massachusetts in a Globalized Economy  Robert Forrant  5. From Cars to Casinos: Global Pasts and Local Futures in the Detroit-Windsor Transnational Metropolitan Area  Brent Ryan  6. From a Fishing Village via an Instant City to a Secondary Global City: The "Miracle" and Growth Pains of Shenzhen Special Economic Zone in China  Xiangming Chen and Tomás de’Medici  7. The Third Coming of China’s Special Economic Zones: The Rise and Regional Dimensions of Tianjin Binhai New Area  Chang Liu and Xiangming Chen  8. Social Accountability in African Cities: Comparing Participatory Budgeting in Johannesburg and Harare  Tyanai Masiya  Part III: The Contested Urban Arena: Identity and Exclusion in Secondary Cities  9. Globalization and the Construction of Identity in Two New Southeast Asian Capitals: Putrajaya and Dompak  Sarah Moser  10. Off Limits and Out of Bounds: Taxi Driver Perceptions of Dangerous People and Places in Kunming, China  Beth E. Notar  11. Seats of Difference: Coffeehouses and the Geo-economics of Gender in Contemporary Inner-City Tunis  Rodney W. Collins  12. From the "Margin of the Margins" in Salvador, Brazil: Black Women Confront the Racial Logic of Spatial Exclusion  Keisha-Khan Y. Perry  Epilogue: Second May Be Best: Theorizing the Global Urban from the Middle  Xiangming Chen and Michael Magdelinskas

O autorze

Xiangming Chen is Dean and Director of the Center for Urban and Global Studies and Raether Distinguished Professor of Sociology and International Studies at Trinity College, and Distinguished Professor in the School of Social Development and Public Policy at Fudan University, Shanghai.

Ahmed Kanna is Assistant Professor of Anthropology in the School of International Studies at the University of the Pacific and was the Raether Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Urban and Global Studies at Trinity College during 2008-09.