Global Cities Reader
Author: N Brenner
During the last decade, research on global cities has exploded throughout the social sciences. It has now become one of the most exciting, if controversial approaches to the study of urban life today.
Fifty generous selections, including contributions from John Friedmann, Michael Peter Smith, Saskia Sassen, Peter Taylor, Manuel Castells, and Anthony King, explore the interrelationships between cities and globalization. The seven sections with accompanying editorial introductions guide the student through the key theoretical, methodological, and empirical debates.
The Global Cities Reader explores the major foundations and intellectual influences of research on globalized urbanization. Classic and contemporary case studies of globalizing cities from Europe, North America and East Asia as well as from emerging world city regions of the global South are presented. The political and cultural dimensions of global city formation are examined in separate sections. The reader concludes byexamining the refinement and critique of global cities research in the last fifteen years.
Table of Contents:
| List of plates | xiv | |
| List of contributors | xv | |
| Acknowledgments | xvii | |
| Editors' introduction: global city theory in retrospect and prospect | 1 | |
| Part 1 | Global City Formation: Emergence of a Concept and Research Agenda | 17 |
| Introduction to Part One | 19 | |
| 1 | Prologue: "The Metropolitan Explosion" | 23 |
| 2 | "Divisions of Space and Time in Europe" | 25 |
| 3 | "Urban Specialization in the World System: An Investigation of Historical Cases" | 32 |
| 4 | "Global City Formation in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles: An Historical Perspective" | 42 |
| 5 | "The New International Division of Labor, Multinational Corporations and Urban Hierarchy" | 49 |
| 6 | "World City Formation: An Agenda for Research and Action" | 57 |
| 7 | "The World City Hypothesis" | 67 |
| Part 2 | Structures, Dynamics and Geographies of Global City Formation | 73 |
| Introduction to Part Two | 75 | |
| 8 | Prologue: "100-mile Cities" | 80 |
| 9 | "Cities and Communities in the Global Economy" | 82 |
| 10 | "Locating Cities on Global Circuits" | 89 |
| 11 | "World-city Network: A New Metageography?" | 96 |
| 12 | "Global Cities and Global Classes: The Peripheralization of Labor in New York City" | 104 |
| 13 | "Inequality in Global City-regions" | 111 |
| 14 | "Global Grids of Glass: On Global Cities, Telecommunications and Planetary Urban Networks" | 118 |
| Part 3 | Local Pathways of Global City Formation: Classic and Contemporary Case Studies | 127 |
| Introduction to Part Three | 129 | |
| 15 | Prologue: "Cities, the Informational Society and the Global Economy" | 135 |
| 16 | "The City as a Landscape of Power: London and New York as Global Financial Capitals" | 137 |
| 17 | "The Urban Restructuring Process in Tokyo in the 1980s: Transforming Tokyo into a World City" | 145 |
| 18 | "Detroit and Houston: Two Cities in Global Perspective" | 154 |
| 19 | "Global City Zurich: Paradigms of Urban Development" | 161 |
| 20 | "Global Cities and Developmental States: New York, Tokyo and Seoul" | 170 |
| 21 | "The Stimulus of a Little Confusion: A Contemporary Comparison of Amsterdam and Los Angeles" | 179 |
| Part 4 | Globalization, Urbanization and Uneven Development: Perspectives on Global City Formation in/from the Global South | 187 |
| Introduction to Part Four | 189 | |
| 22 | Prologue: "A Global Agora vs. Gated City-regions" | 194 |
| 23 | "Building, Architecture, and the New International Division of Labor" | 196 |
| 24 | "The World City Hypothesis: Reflections from the Periphery" | 203 |
| 25 | "'Fourth World' Cities in the Global Economy: The Case of Phnom Penh, Cambodia" | 210 |
| 26 | "Global and World Cities: A View from off the Map" | 217 |
| 27 | "Globalization and the Corporate Geography of Cities in the Less-developed World" | 224 |
| 28 | "Sao Paulo: Outsourcing and Downgrading of Labor in a Globalizing City" | 238 |
| Part 5 | Contested Cities: State Restructuring, Local Politics and Civil Society | 247 |
| Introduction to Part Five | 249 | |
| 29 | Prologue: "The Global City as World Order" | 256 |
| 30 | "Global Cities, 'Glocal' States: Global City Formation and State Territorial Restructuring in Contemporary Europe" | 259 |
| 31 | "World City Formation on the Asia-Pacific Rim: Poverty, 'Everyday' Forms of Civil Society and Environmental Management" | 267 |
| 32 | "'Global Cities' vs. 'global cities': Rethinking Contemporary Urbanism as Public Ecology" | 275 |
| 33 | "The Neglected Builder of Global Cities" | 282 |
| 34 | "The Globalization of Frankfurt am Main: Core, Periphery and Social Conflict" | 288 |
| 35 | "Urban Social Movements in an Era of Globalization" | 296 |
| Part 6 | Representation, Identity and Culture in Global Cities: Rethinking the Local and the Global | 305 |
| Introduction to Part Six | 307 | |
| 36 | Prologue: "Towards Cosmopolis: A Postmodern Agenda" | 311 |
| 37 | "The Cultural Role of World Cities" | 313 |
| 38 | "World Cities: Global? Postcolonial? Postimperial? Or Just the Result of Happenstance? Some Cultural Comments" | 319 |
| 39 | "'Global Media Cities': Major Nodes of Globalizing Culture and Media Industries" | 325 |
| 40 | "Willing the Global City: Berlin's Cultural Strategies of Inter-urban Competition after 1989" | 332 |
| 41 | "Exploring Colombo: The Relevance of a Knowledge of New York" | 339 |
| 42 | "Culturing the World City: An Exhibition of the Global Present" | 346 |
| Part 7 | Emerging Issues in Global Cities Research: Refinements, Critiques and New Frontiers | 353 |
| Introduction to Part Seven | 355 | |
| 43 | Prologue: "Whose City is it?" | 360 |
| 44 | "Space in the Globalizing City" | 361 |
| 45 | "Globalization and the Rise of City-regions" | 370 |
| 46 | "The Global Cities Discourse: A Return to the Master Narrative?" | 377 |
| 47 | "Immigration and the Global City Hypothesis: Towards an Alternative Research Agenda" | 384 |
| 48 | "Pathways to Global City Formation: A View from the Developmental City-state of Singapore" | 392 |
| 49 | "World City Topologies" | 400 |
| 50 | "The Urban Revolution" | 407 |
| Illustration credits | 415 | |
| Copyright information | 417 | |
| Index | 421 |
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Right Thing: Conscience, Profit and Personal Responsibility in Today's Business
Author: Jeffrey L Seglin
This engaging and provactive new book brings the issues of corporate and personal responsiblity in a profit-driven world down to the kind of everyday decisions we all have to make.
Library Journal
This new book on modern ethics and business is based on a regular column written for the New York Times by Seglin (publishing and writing, Emerson Coll.). His first column appeared in September 1998 when the U.S. economy was booming, unemployment was at an all-time low, and the stock market at an all-time high. Over the next four years, many changes and issues confronted the corporate world. Here, Seglin has organized his columns into the following topics: Ethics Policies and Life in the Corporation, Hiring, Bosses, Privacy; Lying, Cheating and Stealing; and Leading by Example. Each section has a brief introduction to the topic and raises issues and presents some options for action. A short bibliography of books and web sites is included. Well written and lucid, Seglin's work brings objectivity, honesty, and wisdom to business ethics and encourages an open dialog and honest questioning to the discussion of integrity in the workplace.-Susan C. Awe, Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.
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