Globalization and the City

by Short, John; Kim, Yeong Hyun

• ISBN13: 9780582369122
• ISBN10: 0582369126
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-01-01
• Publisher: Prentice Hall

Summary

Globalization is often taken as the starting point for theoretical debates concerning contemporary urban restructuring. There has, however, been little investigation of the complicated relationship between globalization and urbanization and even less publications on the subject suitable for undergraduate courses. Globalization and the City provides an accessible and topical examination of the urban impact of globalization and the role of cities in globalization. The significance of this contribution to the debate is threefold. Firstly, it examines the role of cities across the globe rather than a narrow band of world cities. Secondly, the relationship between urban dynamics and cultural and political globalization is explored in depth showing how economic, cultural and political processes at the global level lead to changes in the city. Finally, unlike many existing studies which only focus on globally induced changes to the city, this book looks at how the process operates in the opposite direction to reproduce globalization through urban dynamics. Globalization and the City is written for undergraduate and postgraduate courses in urban geography, urban policies, economic geography, world political economy, and cultural studies.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	ix	(2)
List of tables	xi	(1)
Acknowledgements	xii
PART 1 GLOBAL DISCOURSES	1	(12)
1 Going global	3	(10)
Globalization	3	(2)
A new metanarrative	5	(4)
Globalization and the city	9	(4)
PART 2 ECONOMIC GLOBALIZATION AND THE CITY	13	(60)
2 Economic globalization	15	(9)
Global financial integration	15	(2)
Global service economy	17	(1)
Global telecommunications network	18	(2)
Limits to economic globalization	20	(2)
Appendix: Bretton Woods	22	(2)
3 The global urban system	24	(29)
Command centers of the global urban system	24	(14)
Hubs in the global urban network	38	(15)
4 World cities	53	(20)
Command centers	54	(2)
Socio-cultural infrastructure	56	(1)
Social polarization: winners and losers	56	(1)
Becoming a world city: the globalization of Seoul	57	(16)
PART 3 CULTURAL GLOBALIZATION AND THE CITY	73	(36)
5 Cultural globalization	75	(5)
The main debate	75	(2)
The reterritorialization of culture	77	(1)
English as a global language	78	(2)
6 Cultural globalization and the city	80	(15)
Identity, culture and the city	80	(6)
Ethnic identities and the global city	86	(3)
Urban cultural economics	89	(6)
7 Representing cities in a global world	95	(14)
Representing the city	95	(3)
Marketing the city	98	(1)
Reimagining the city	98	(8)
Urban representation and urban boosterism	106	(3)
PART 4 POLITICAL GLOBALIZATION AND THE CITY	109	(34)
8 Political globalization	111	(6)
Supranational organizations	111	(2)
The market versus the state	113	(1)
Immigration challenges to the nation-state	114	(1)
The enduring nation-state	115	(2)
9 The Entrepreneurial city	117	(14)
The rise of the entrepreneurial city	117	(11)
Independence of the urban from the national	128	(1)
The global-urban nexus	129	(2)
10 Sydney: going for gold in the new Australia	131	(12)
Rewriting the city, refashioning national identity	131	(2)
Becoming Australia's global city	133	(2)
Reconciliation: a new history	135	(2)
The backlash	137	(4)
Cleaning up for the Games	141	(2)
References	143	(20)
Index	163