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Global City-Regions
Trends, Theory, Policy
Edited by Allen J. Scott
484 pages
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33 figures; 43 tables
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234x156mm
978-0-19-925230-5
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Paperback
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07 March 2002
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- Identifies the phenomenon of the 'Global City-Region'
- Includes chapters by key figures such as James Wolfensohn, Lucien Bouchard, Kenichi Ohmae, Michael Porter, Michael Keating, Saskia Sassen, Michael Storper, and Peter Hall amongst others
- Strong emphasis on policy issues
There are now more than three hundred city-regions around the world with populations greater than one million. These city-regions are expanding vigorously, and they present many new and deep challenges to researchers and policy-makers in both the more developed and less developed parts of the world. The processes of global economic integration and accelerated urban growth make traditional planning and policy strategies in these regions increasingly inadequate, while more effective approaches remain largely in various stages of hypothesis and experimentation.
Global City-Regions represents a multifaceted effort to deal with the many different issues raised by
these developments. It seeks at once to define the question of global city-regions and to describe the internal and external dynamics that shape them; it proposes a theorization of global city-regions based on their economic and political responses to intensifying levels of globalization; and it offers a number of policy insights into the severe social problems that confront global city-regions as they come face to face with an economically and politically neoliberal world.
At a moment when globalization is increasingly subject to critical scrutiny in many different quarters, this book provides a timely overview of its effects on urban and regional development, one of its most important (but perhaps least understood) corollaries. The book also offes a series of
nuanced visions of alternative possible futures. Readership: Academic: researchers and postgraduate students of international business, urban planning, and economic geography. Practitioner: policy-makers, urban planners, business consultants, and municipal officials
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Edited by Allen J. Scott, Department of Policy Studies and Department of Geography, University of California, Los Angeles Contributors:
Allen J. Scott (University of California, Los Angeles)
John Agnew (University of California, Los Angeles)
Edward W. Soja (University of California, Los Angeles)
Michael Storper (UCLA/University of Paris/Marne-la-Vallee, France)
Kenichi Ohmae (University of California, Los Angeles)
James D. Wolfensohn (World Bank Group)
Lucien Bouchard (Premier of Quebec and Chairman of the Parti Quebecois since 1996)
Sir Peter Hall (University College,
London)
Saskia Sassen (University of Chicago/London School of Economics)
Roberto Camagni (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
John Friedmann (University of California, Los Angeles)
Michael E. Porter (Harvard Business School)
Thomas J. Courchene (Queen's University, Ontario/Institute for Research on Public Policy, Montreal)
Richard Stren (University of Toronto)
Tim Campbell (World Bank)
Michael Douglass (University of Hawaii)
Won Bae Kim (Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements)
Susan S. Fainstein (State University of New Jersey at Rutgers)
Roger Waldinger (University of California, Los Angeles)
James Holston (University of California, San Diego)
Engin F. Isin (York University, Ontario/University of Cambridge)
Michael Keating (University of Aberdeen/European University Institute, Florence)
Douglas Henton (President of Collaborative Economics)
Hubert Schmitz (University of Sussex)
Theodore Panayotou (Harvard University)
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"... some must-read pieces ... this important book brings the concept of the global city-region into view. At the same time, it sows seeds of doubt about the concept's usefulness and applicability." - Area "A good-quality production with many eminent contributors ... will be of interest to urban scholars." - Urban Studies
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Allen J. Scott: Introduction
Part I: Opening Arguments
1: Allen J. Scott, John Agnew, Edward W. Soja, and Michael Storper: Global City-Regions
Part II: On Practical Questions of Globalization and City-Region Development
2: Kenichi Ohmae: How to Invite Prosperity from the Global Economy into a Region
3: James D. Wolfensohn: The World Bank and Global City-Regions: Reaching the Poor
4: Lucien Bouchard: Quebec in an Era of Global City-Regions
Part III: The Global City-Region: A New Geographic Phenomenon?
5: Sir Peter Hall: Global City-Regions in the Twenty-First Century
6: Saskia Sassen: Global Cities and Global City-Regions: A Comparison
7: Roberto Camagni: The Economic Role and Spatial Contradictions of Global City-Regions: The Functional, Cognitive, and Evolutionary Context
8: John Friedmann: Intercity Networks in a Globalizing Era
Part IV: The Competitive Advantages of Global City-Regions
9: Michael E. Porter: Regions and the New Economics of Competition
10: Thomas J. Courchene: Ontario as a North American Region-State, Toronto as a Global City-Region: Responding to the NAFTA Challenge
Part V: Global City-Regions in Africa, Asia, and Latin America: Political and Economic Challenges
11: Richard Stren: Local Governance and Social Diversity in the Developing World: New Challenges for Globalizing City-Regions
12: Tim Campbell: Innovation and Risk-Taking: Urban Governance in Latin America
13: Michael Douglass: Intercity Competition and the Question of Economic Resilience: Globalization and Crisis in Asia
14: Won Bae Kim: Repositioning of City-Regions: Korea after the Crisis
Part VI: Social Inequalities and Immigrant Niches in Global City-Regions
15: Susan S. Fainstein: Inequality in Global City-Regions
16: Roger Waldinger: The Immigrant Niche in Global City-Regions: Concept, Patterns, Controversy
Part VII: Questions of Citizenship
17: James Holston: Urban Citizenship and Globalization
18: Engin F. Isin: Istanbul's Conflicting Paths to Citizenship: Islamization and Globalization
Part VIII: The New Collective Order of Global City-Regions
19: Michael Keating: Governing Cities and Regions: Territorial Restructuring in a Global Age
20: Douglas Henton: Lessons from Silicon Valley: Governance in a Global City-Region
21: Hubert Schmitz: Local Governance and Conflict Management: Reflections on a Brazilian Cluster
Part IX: Coda: Environmental Issues
22: Theodore Panayotou: Environmental Sustainability and Services in Developing Global City-Regions
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