With the urbanization of the world s population growing at an ever increasing pace, the need to understand the effects of globalization on cities is at the forefront of urban studies. Traditional scholarship largely employs a framework of analysis that is based on the globablizing experience of Western cities. In Globalizing City Richard Grant draws on ten years of empirical research in Accra, Ghana s capital city, to show how this African city is as deeply transformed by globalization as the cities of other world regions.
Grant reveals how the international, transnational, and local...