Globalizing Cities: A New Spatial Order? / Edition 1

by Peter Marcuse, Ronald Van Kempen

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780631212904
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	04/07/2000
Series:	IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Series
Pages:	340
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.08(h) x 0.95(d)

About the Author

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.

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Table of Contents

List of Figures vii

List of Maps viii

List of Tables x

List of Contributors xii

Series Editors' Preface xv

Preface xvii

1 Introduction 1
Peter Marcuse and Ronald van Kempen

2 The Unavoidable Continuities of the City 22
Robert A. Beauregard and Anne Haila

3 From the Metropolis to Globalization: The Dialectics of Race and Urban Form 37
William W. Goldsmith

4 From Colonial City to Globalizing City? The Far-fromcomplete Spatial Transformation of Calcutta 56
Sanjoy Chakravorty

5 Rio de Janeiro: Emerging Dualization in a Historically Unequal City 78
Luiz Cesar de Queiroz Ribeiro and Edward E. Telles

6 Singapore: the Changing Residential Landscape in a Winner City 95
Leo van Grunsven

7 Tokyo: Patterns of Familiarity and Partitions of Difference 127
Paul Waley

8 Still a Global City: The Racial and Ethnic Segmentation of New York 158
John R. Logan

9 Brussels: Post-Fordist Polarization in a Fordist Spatial Canvas 186
Christian Kesteloot

10 The Imprint of the Post-Fordist Transition on Australian Cities 211
Blair Badcock

11 The Globalization of Frankfurt am Main: Core, Periphery and Social Conflict 228
Roger Keil and Klaus Ronneberger

12 Conclusion: A Changed Spatial Order 249
Peter Marcuse and Ronald van Kempen

List of References 276

Index 302

Editorial Reviews

"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

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