Relocating Global Cities From the Center to the Margins

by Amen, Mark M.; Archer, Kevin; Bosman, Martin M.; Amen, M Mark; Beaverstock, Jonathan V.; O. Beavon, Keith S.; Boonchuen, Pornpan; Bosman, M Martin; Cariola, Cecilia; Douglass, Mike; Hoyler, Michael; Lacabana, Miguel; Moyersoen, Johan; Pain, Kathryn; Salmo

• ISBN13: 9780742541221
• ISBN10: 0742541223
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-04-27
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

Drawing on eight case studies from key cities on the periphery of global cities literature, Relocating Global Cities argues that all cities are globalizing in important ways. Case studies of Frankfurt, Johannesburg, Bangkok, Manila, Tampa, Sydney, Brussels, and Caracas provide the basis for an alternative theoretical approach to global city formation. Reconciling a market-based understanding and an agency-based understanding of global cities, a set of expert contributors proposes that globalization and cities are mutually constituted by the global political economy engaging with transnational and local agents. A foreword by noted sociologist Saskia Sassen introduces readers to the book's theme of searching for the global in the urban.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	vii
Foreword	ix
Saskia Sassen
Acknowledgments	xv
List of Abbreviations	xvii
1 Thinking through Global Cities	1	(22)
M. Mark Amen, Kevin Archer, and M. Martin Bosman
2 In London's Long Shadow: Frankfurt in the European Space of Flows	23	(26)
Jonathan V. Beaverstock, Michael Hoyler, Kathryn Pain, and Peter J. Taylor
3 Johannesburg 1986-2030: A Quest to Regain World Status	49	(26)
Keith S.O. Beavon
4 Bangkok: Intentional World City	75	(26)
Mike Douglass and Pornpan Boonchuen
5 Laboring in the Periphery: The Place of Manila in the Global Economy	101	(16)
James A. Tyner
6 Place-Imaging Tampa in the Age of Globalization	117	(22)
M. Mark Amen and M. Martin Bosman
7 Gentrification, Globalization, and Governance: The Reterritorialization of Sydney's City-State	139	(16)
Scott Salmon
8 Reluctant Globalizers: The Paradoxes of "Glocal" Development in Brussels	155	(24)
Erik Swyngedouw and Johan Moyersoen
9 The Processes Underlying Caracas as a Globalizing City	179	(22)
Miguel Lacabana and Cecilia Cariola
10 Reconsidering the Social Structuration of Globalization	201	(14)
M. Mark Amen, Kevin Archer, and M. Martin Bosman
Index	215	(8)
About the Authors	223