Global City Regions: Their Emerging Forms

by Hack,Gary; Hack,Gary

• ISBN13: 9780419232407
• ISBN10: 0419232400
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-01-30
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

A unique comparative study, based on funded research, of thirteen city regions across three continents looking at changes over the last thirty years The socio-economic and physical forms of city regions have been examined for comparative study and the findings will be of interest to all those concerned with urban development in their professional and academic work. Cities covered are: Boston, San Diego, Seattle and the Central Puget, Ankara, Bangkok, Madrid, Randstad, Chile, Sao Paulo, Taipei, Tokyo, and West Midlands.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors	vi
PART 1 ASSUMPTIONS AND OBJECTIVES
Introduction	3	(5)
Roger Simmonds
Gary Hack
Planning the city region: a short history of Western practice	8	(15)
Roger Simmonds
Gary Hack
PART 2 STUDIES OF GLOBAL CITY REGIONS
Table 1 Indicators for the eleven global city regions	19	(3)
Key to the illustrations in Part 2	22	(1)
The Bangkok region	23	(15)
Utis Kaothien
Douglas Webster
The Boston region	38	(16)
Rosalind Greenstein
Jemelie Robertson
The Madrid region	54	(12)
Jose Maria Ezquiaga
Eva Cimadevilla
Gemma Peribanez
The Randstad	66	(14)
Leo J.M. Tummers
Pieter M. Schrijnen
San Diego and Tijuana	80	(15)
Michael Stepner
Paul Fiske
The Santiago region	95	(12)
Francisco Sabatini
The Sao Paulo region	107	(13)
Gilda Collet Bruna
Seattle and the central Puget Sound	120	(15)
Anne Vernez Moudon
LeRoy A. Heckman
The Taipei region	135	(14)
Nein-Hsiung Kuo
The Tokyo region	149	(14)
Yuichi Takeuchi
The West Midlands	163	(20)
Stephen Walker
PART 3 COMPARING AND CONTRASTING THE CASES
Infrastructure and regional form	183	(10)
Gary Hack
Emerging cultures of governance	193	(14)
Roger Simmonds
PART 4 ESSAYS ABOUT CITY REGIONS
Urban management in the global economy	207	(7)
David Barkin
Crossing cybercities: boundary problems separating the regional space of the city from the matrix of cyberspace	214	(15)
M. Christine Boyer
The future of transport: mobility and infrastructure	229	(7)
Ralph Gakenheimer
Planning cyberplaces	236	(8)
Stephen Graham
Telecommunications and sustainable cities	244	(5)
Simon Marvin
Regional grid planning	249	(11)
Pedro Ortiz Castano
Discontiguous urban growth: edge cities, global cities, or both?	260	(9)
Agustin Rodriguez-Bachiller
Cities in the global economy	269	(8)
Saskia Sassen
The joys of spread-city	277	(5)
Melvin M. Webber
Index	282