Cities in transition : globalization, political change and urban development
Annotation This book was written with the aim of showing that even in the era of globalization developments appearing in cities are not subject to almost unconditional global forces. Rather, universal forces are decisive eventualities in the process of urban restructuring, often influencing its course and speed, yet developments and particularities within a city strongly influence the course of events and the extent to which negative characteristics of globalization might occur. Features Challenges Sassen's hypothesis that globalization as a process forces uniformity upon individual regions or cities and imprints macro-cultural structural patterns onto local forms
Case studies
1 online resource (xi, 333 pages) : illustrations
9781402038679, 1402038674
262687530
Global and local forces in cities undergoing political change; Berlin: Coping with the past
looking ahead; The political geography of an eternal city: Ethno-territorial fragmentation in a "united" Jerusalem; Hong Kong: China's global city; Sarajevo: Isolation in a country falling apart; Moscow: Capital of a decimated world power; St. Petersburg: Kiosks as mediators of the new market economy; Johannesburg: Life after Apartheid; New perspectives for Vienna: Repositioning between East and West; Brussels: Pseudo-capital of Europe. Perspectives of Belgium's global city in-themaking
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010