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Summary
Summary
The Fourth Edition of Cities in a World Economy shows how certain characteristics of our turn-of-the-millennium flows of money, information and people have led to the emergence of a new social formation: global cities. These developments give new meaning to such fixtures of urban sociology as the centrality of place and the importance of geography in our social world.
New to the Fourth Edition :
* new chapter (8) analysing the challenges and vulnerabilities facing major cities in terms of three major challenges: (1) the environment, (2) global financial crisis, and (3) asymmetric war
* new section in chapter 3 on global migrations
* new section in Chapter 4 on comparing global cities
* presents three new case studies in Chapter 5: (1) comparing Shanghai and Hong Kong, (2) the Gulf States, and (3) Istanbul
Key Features :
* takes a multidisciplinary approach to urban sociology, supported by global examples
* examines the impact of global processes on the social structure of cities, increasing students′ world awareness
* strikes an ideal balance between maintaining academic rigor and employing new and innovative concepts
* discusses in Chapter 7 a unique perspective on the highly gendered and unequal nature of the global city, and how it forces the underprivileged to live a dangerous and unpredictable life on global survival circuits
Table of Contents
Preface to the Fourth Edition | p. ix |
Preface to the Third Edition | p. xi |
Preface to the Second Edition | p. xiii |
Preface to the First Edition | p. xv |
List of Exhibits | p. xvii |
Chapter 1 Place and Production in the Global Economy | p. 1 |
Chapter 2 The Urban Impact of Economic Globalization | p. 15 |
The Global Economy Today | p. 17 |
Strategic Places | p. 32 |
Conclusion: After the Pax Americana | p. 42 |
Notes | p. 43 |
Chapter 2 Appendix | p. 44 |
Chapter 3 National and Transnational Urban Systems | p. 58 |
Global Patterns of Urbanization | p. 59 |
Urbanization in Africa Today | p. 65 |
Urbanization in Asia Today | p. 66 |
Impacts on Primate Systems: The Case of Latin America and the Caribbean | p. 67 |
Impacts on Balanced Urban Systems: The Case of Europe | p. 70 |
Transnational Urban Systems | p. 78 |
Global Cities and Immigration | p. 84 |
Global Cities and Diasporic Networks | p. 86 |
A Politics of Places on Global Circuits | p. 89 |
Conclusion: Urban Growth and Its Multiple Meanings | p. 91 |
Notes | p. 93 |
Chapter 3 Appendix | p. 95 |
Chapter 4 The New Urban Economy: The Intersection of Global Processes and Place | p. 109 |
From the Keynesian City to the Global City | p. 110 |
The Multiple Circuits of the Global Economy | p. 111 |
The Specialized Differences of Cities Matter: There Is No Perfect Global City | p. 114 |
The Global City as a Postindustrial Production Site | p. 127 |
The Formation of a New Production Complex | p. 137 |
Corporate Headquarters and Cities | p. 140 |
An Emerging Global Labor Market | p. 143 |
Growing Segmentation in the Global Labor Market | p. 147 |
Conclusion: Cities as Postindustrial Production Sites | p. 155 |
Notes | p. 156 |
Chapter 4 Appendix | p. 157 |
Chapter 5 Issues and Case Studies in the New Urban Economy | p. 179 |
The Development of Global City Functions: The Case of Miami | p. 181 |
The Growing Density and Specialization of Functions in Financial Districts: Toronto | p. 189 |
The Concentration of Functions and Geographic Scale: Sydney | p. 193 |
Competition or Specialized Differences: The Financial Centers of Hong Kong and Shanghai | p. 198 |
Making New Global Circuits in Energy and Finance: The Gulf States | p. 201 |
An Old Imperial City in Today's New East-West Geopolitics: Istanbul | p. 202 |
Globalization and Concentration: The Case of Leading Financial Centers | p. 212 |
Why Do Financial Centers Still Exist in the Global Digital Era? | p. 216 |
In the Digital Era: More Concentration than Dispersal | p. 219 |
The Space Economy of Centrality | p. 228 |
Towards Novel Spatial Formats: Global Cities and Megaregions | p. 231 |
Notes | p. 235 |
Chapter 5 Appendix | p. 236 |
Chapter 6 The New Inequalities Within Cities | p. 241 |
Transformations in the Organization of the Labor Process | p. 242 |
The Informal Economy | p. 258 |
The Earnings Distribution in a Service-dominated Economy | p. 259 |
The Restructuring of Urban Consumption | p. 268 |
Conclusion: A Widening Gap | p. 270 |
Notes | p. 272 |
Chapter 7 Global Cities and Global Survival Circuits | p. 273 |
Women in the Global Economy | p. 274 |
Localizing the Global | p. 276 |
The Other Workers in the Advanced Corporate Economy | p. 279 |
Producing a Global Supply of the New Caretakers: The Feminization of Survival | p. 282 |
Alternative Survival Circuits | p. 286 |
Conclusion | p. 291 |
Notes | p. 293 |
Chapter 7 Appendix | p. 295 |
Chapter 8 The Urbanizing of Global Governance Challenges | p. 297 |
Cities as Frontier Spaces for Global Governance | p. 298 |
Bridging the Ecologies of Cities and of the Biosphere | p. 299 |
When Finance Hits Urban Space | p. 308 |
When Pursuing National Security Is the Making of Urban Insecurity | p. 318 |
Notes | p. 321 |
Chapter 9 A New Geography of Centers and Margins | p. 323 |
Summary and Implications | p. 323 |
References and Suggested Reading | p. 330 |
Index | p. 380 |
About the Author | p. 399 |