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Global City-Regions
Trends, Theory, Policy
Edited by Allen J. Scott
484 pages
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numerous figures
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234x156mm
978-0-19-829799-4
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Hardback
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25 January 2001
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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 offers a series of
nuanced visions of alternative possible futures.
Readership: Academic: researchers and postgraduate students of international business and economic geography. Practitioner: policy-makers, urban planners, and municipal officials
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Edited by Allen J. Scott, Professor in the Department of Policy Studies and Department of Geography, University of California, Los Angeles Contributors:
John Agnew is Professor and Chair of the Department of Geography at UCLA.
Lucien Bouchard has been Premier of Quebec and Chairman of the Parti Québécois since 1996.
Roberto Camagni is Professor of Economics and of Urban Economics, Politecnico di Milano, Italy.
Tim Campbell is an Adviser in Urban Development at the World Bank.
Thomas J. Courchene is the Jarislowsky-Deutsch Professor of Economic and Financial Policy at Queen's University (Kingston,
Ontario) and Senior Scholar at the Institute for Research on Public Policy (Montreal).
Michael Douglass is Professor and former Chair of the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Hawaii.
Susan S. Fainstein is Professor of Urban Planning and Policy Development at the State University of New Jersey at Rutgers.
John Friedmann is Professor Emeritus in the School of Public Policy and Social Research, University of California, Los Angeles.
Peter Hall is Professor of Planning at the Bartlett School of Architecture and Planning, University College, London.
Douglas Henton is President of Collaborative Economics.
James Holston is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, San Diego.
Engin F. Isin is Associate Professor in the Division of Social Science at York University, Ontario, and Visiting Fellow at the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, University of Cambridge.
Michael Keating is a political scientist and holds chairs in Scottish Politics at the University of Aberdeen and in Regions at the European University Institute in Florence.
Won Bae Kim is Senior Fellow at the Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements.
Kenichi Ohmae is Managing Director of Ohmae & Associates and Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy at UCLA.
Theodore Panayotou is a Fellow of the Harvard Institute for International Development and Director of the Institute's International Environment Program, and Director of the Environment
Program of the Center for International Development at Harvard University.
Michael E. Porter is the C. Roland Christensen Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School.
Saskia Sassen is Professor of Sociology, University of Chicago, and Centennial Visiting Professor, London School of Economics.
Hubert Schmitz is a Fellow of the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) at the University of Sussex.
Allen J. Scott is Professor in the Departments of Policy Studies and Geography at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Edward W. Soja is Professor of Urban Planning, School of Public Policy and Social Research, University of California, Los Angeles.
Michael Storper holds positions with both the University
of California, Los Angeles, and the University of Paris/Marne-la-Vallée in France.
Richard Stren is Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto, and Director of the Center for Urban and Community Studies.
Roger Waldinger is Professor and Chair, Department of Sociology, UCLA.
James D. Wolfensohn is the ninth President of the World Bank Group.
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"This edited volume has taken us a step forward in advancing our understanding of global cities and their immediate functional and spatial regions in contemporary globalization. I would recommend it to both geographers and urban theorists and, as a course text, for those who are interested in globalization and world cities." - Progress in Human Geography "This comprehensive collection hits some important academic and policy targets in very timely fashion ... this is a book that will surely be a useful reference point for both students and researchers alike." - International Planning Studies "For those new to the debate over the nexus of global-urban relations, this volume is a useful introduction to a
number of the key issues and concerns of this approach, although familiarity with the global city framework would contextualize some of the discussion. For those more familiar with the extant literature, this collection has enough that is new to encourage reflection." - International Affairs "I strongly recommend this book ... it begins to provide us with a way to think across traditionally urban and regional scales of analysis and dialogue. That alone is a welcome addition to the now massive, if often fragmented, literature on globalization and its manifold consequences." - Regional Studies "Well-edited and multi-faceted." - Regional 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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