Globalizing Cities A New Spatial Order?,9780631212904

Globalizing Cities A New Spatial Order?

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9780631212904
ISBN10: 0631212906
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2000-04-07
Publisher(s): Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary

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.

Author Biography

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.

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
Introduction
1(21)
Peter Marcuse
Ronald van Kempen
The Unavoidable Continuities of the City
22(15)
Robert A. Beauregard
Anne Haila
From the Metropolis to Globalization: The Dialectics of Race and Urban Form
37(19)
William W. Goldsmith
From Colonial City to Globalizing City? The Far-from-complete Spatial Transformation of Calcutta
56(22)
Sanjoy Chakravorty
Rio de Janeiro: Emerging Dualization in a Historically Unequal City
78(17)
Luiz Cesar de Queiroz Ribeiro
Edward E. Telles
Singapore: The Changing Residential Landscape in a Winner City
95(32)
Leo van Grunsven
Tokyo: Patterns of Familiarity and Partitions of Difference
127(31)
Paul Waley
Still a Global City: The Racial and Ethnic Segmentation of New York
158(28)
John R. Logan
Brussels: Post-Fordist Polarization in a Fordist Spatial Canvas
186(25)
Christian Kesteloot
The Imprint of the Post-Fordist Transition on Australian Cities
211(17)
Blair Badcock
The Globalization of Frankfurt am Main: Core, Periphery and Social Conflict
228(21)
Roger Keil
Klaus Ronneberger
Conclusion: A Changed Spatial Order
249(27)
Peter Marcuse
Ronald van Kempen
List of References 276(26)
Index 302

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