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Author : Edward W. Soja
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 21 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (222 download)
Download or read book Economic Restructuring and the Internationalization of the Los Angeles Region written by Edward W. Soja and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marta López-Garza
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804780209
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)
Download or read book Asian and Latino Immigrants in a Restructuring Economy written by Marta López-Garza and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2002-06-01 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experiencing both the enormous benefits and the serious detriments of globalization and economic restructuring, Southern California serves as a magnet for immigrants from many parts of the world. This volume advances an emerging body of work that centers this region's future on the links between the two fastest-growing racial groups in California, Asians and Latinos, and the economic and social mainstream of this important sector of the global economy. The contributors to the anthology—scholars and community leaders with social science, urban planning, and legal backgrounds—provide a multi-faceted analysis of gender, class, and race relations. They also examine various forms of immigrant economic participation, from low-wage workers to entrepreneurs and capital investors. Asian and Latino Immigrants in a Restructuring Economy documents the entrenchment of various immigrant communities in the socio-political and economic fabric of United States society and these communities' role in transforming the Los Angeles region.
Author : Anthony D. King
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814746790
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (467 download)
Download or read book Representing the City written by Anthony D. King and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1996-02 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classic representations of the city have focused on simplistic urban dichotomies such as renewal or decline, poverty or prosperity, and vice or vigor. We are left with the question of what actually constitutes a city and what makes it and its people succeed or fail. Recent writing on the city, however, has begun to question the images, metaphors, and discourses through which the contemporary city is represented. Discussing recent visual, architectural and spatial transformations in New York and other major world cities in relation to the themes of ethnicity, capital, and culture, Re-Presenting the City moves between interpretive representations of the newly emerging metropolis and the theoretical and methodological questions raised by the task of such representations. Contributors with backgrounds in urban planning, sociology, cultural studies, architecture, art history, geography, and philosophy reflect on the construction of both the real and the unreal city, the images, metaphors and discourses through which the contemporary city is represented, and the texts which both mediate our experience of, as well as contribute to producing, the city of the future.
Author : Edward W. Soja
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520281721
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book My Los Angeles written by Edward W. Soja and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2014-03-14 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At once informative and entertaining, inspiring and challenging, My Los Angeles provides a deep understanding of urban development and change over the past forty years in Los Angeles and other city regions of the world. Once the least dense American metropolis, Los Angeles is now the countryÕs densest urbanized area and one of the most culturally heterogeneous cities in the world. Soja takes us through this urban metamorphosis, analyzing urban restructuring, deindustrialization and reindustrialization, the globalization of capital and labor, and the formation of an information-intensive New Economy. By examining his own evolving interpretations of Los Angeles and the debates on the so-called Los Angeles School of urban studies, Soja argues that a radical shift is taking place in the nature of the urbanization process, from the familiar metropolitan model to regional urbanization. By looking at such concepts as new regionalism, the spatial turn, the end of the metropolis era, the urbanization of suburbia, the global spread of industrial urbanism, and the transformative urban-industrialization of China, Soja offers a unique and remarkable perspective on critical urban and regional studies.
Author : Vicente Romero de Avila Serrano
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (893 download)
Download or read book Knowledge-intensive Business Services in Los Angeles written by Vicente Romero de Avila Serrano and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The recent urban economic restructuring processes that occurred in Los Angeles, as in many other cities in the world, formed a more flexible, global and knowledge and innovation-based New Economy. Although downtowns and core areas are still the most preferred location to Knowledge-Intensive Business Services (KIBS) because of agglomeration economies, other non-core and increasingly distant centers emerge in the city-region's knowledge-based economy network. The nature of these centralities and the knowledge and innovation industries that locate in them whether they are concentrated or specialized is vital for the current motor of urban and regional development. This thesis aims at (1) defining a clearer and more accurate definition of what exactly KIBS activities are and what their role in current urban and regional economies is, (2) analyzing the KIBS location pattern in the Los Angeles city-region to understand whether polycentricity is a help or a hindrance to KIBS development, (3) comparing the concentration and specialization character of its KIBS' clusters, and (4) building similarities among them and with other city-regions in the U.S. so better planning and governance practices can improve Los Angeles' regional development.
Author : Roger Keil
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Los Angeles written by Roger Keil and published by . This book was released on 1998-12-30 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book combines a historical narrative of urbanisation in Los Angeles with an examination of its changing social geography. It provides a solid base from which to understand and explore the city further and a defined emphasis on recent developments. It focuses on the role of local actors in the globalisation of Los Angeles and traces the ways in which local states, boosters, labour unions, social movements, neighbourhood and community organisations and other agents participate in negotiated world city formation.
Author : Paul M. Ong
Publisher : Asian American History & Cultu
ISBN 13 : 9781566392181
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (921 download)
Download or read book The New Asian Immigration in Los Angeles and Global Restructuring written by Paul M. Ong and published by Asian American History & Cultu. This book was released on 1994 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focuses on Los Angeles as a critical 'world city' in the developing global economy and also as the center of new Asian immigration. This work includes discussions of the settlement patterns of various groups of Asians in relation to the social, economic, and political developments in Asia and the United States.
Author : Don Kalb
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780847698851
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (988 download)
Download or read book The Ends of Globalization written by Don Kalb and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2000 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings an empirical social science perspective to a public issue on which observers, economists, and business gurus have freely unleashed their abstract models and jumbo schemes. Written by internationally acclaimed authors, the chapters engage empirically tractable issues that are basic to any overall understanding of the social origins, structures, and consequences of the current wave of globalization. The book brings together in one volume diverse issues related to globalization that are generally dealt with in separate publications, such as migration, social inequality, flows of capital, Americanization and cultural identities, citizenship and collective action, and global governance. The diversity of topics and up to date discussion makes this book ideal as a text or supplementary reading for courses. As an argument for greater complexity, contingency and contradiction in contemporary debates on globalization, it is essential reading for any scholar or lay reader concerned about contemporary change.
Author : Enrique C. Ochoa
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816524662
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (246 download)
Download or read book Latino Los Angeles written by Enrique C. Ochoa and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2005-11-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the twenth-first century begins, Latinas/os represent 45 percent of the residents of Los Angeles County, making them the largest racial/ethnic group in the region. At the same time, the shift from manufacturing to a service-based economy in the area has contributed to a decline in good-paying jobs, significantly impacting working class families. These transformations have created a backlash that has included state propositions impacting Latinas/os and escalating anti-immigrant rhetoric—and Latina/os of all backgrounds are making their voices heard. Until recently, most research on Latinas/os in the U.S. has ignored historical and contemporary dynamics in Latin America, just as scholars of Latin America have generally stopped their studies at the border. This volume roots Los Angeles in the larger arena of globalization, exploring the demographic changes that have transformed the Latino presence in LA from primarily Mexican-origin to one that now includes peoples from throughout the hemisphere. Bringing together scholars from a range of disciplines, it combines historical perspectives with analyses of power and inequality to consider how Latinas/os are responding to exclusionary immigration, labor, and schooling practices and actively creating communities. The contributors examine Latina/o Los Angeles in the context of historical, economic and social factors that have shaped the region. The first section provides contexts for understanding Latina/o migration, with chapters focusing on such factors as U.S. economic and military domination, labor and economic integration in the Americas, and Los Angeles’ economic history. The second section considers how various Latina/o groups have settled and formed communities and interacted with the existing Mexican-origin populations, showing how Zapotecs, Salvadorans, and other peoples are remaking urban demographics. The final section on labor organizing and political activism examines the role of Latina/o immigrants in such actions as the janitors’ strike and also considers the contemporary role of students in political activism. The volume concludes with an up-to-date compilation of contemporary scholarship on immigration, the economy, schools, neighborhoods, gender and activism as they relate to Central American and Mexican immigrants. Reflecting a range of methodologies—statistical, historical, ethnographic, and participatory research—this collection is relevant not only to ethnic studies but also to broader concerns in political science, sociology, history, economics, and urban studies. In addition, some chapters focus explicitly on women, and gender issues are interwoven throughout the text. Latino Los Angeles is an important work that contributes to contemporary scholarship on transnationalism as it reexamines the changing face of America’s largest western metropolis.
Author : Steven P. Erie
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804746816
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (468 download)
Download or read book Globalizing L.A. written by Steven P. Erie and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author chronicles LA's emergence as the nation's leading trade centre and gateway to the Pacific Rim in the 20th century, exploring recent epic battles over port development, expanding LAX, creating a new international airport in Orange County, building the Alameda Corridor rail link and more.
Author : Lawrence Grossberg
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134940009
Total Pages : 91 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)
Download or read book Cultural Studies written by Lawrence Grossberg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1990-11-08 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Edward W. Soja
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book Urban Restructuring written by Edward W. Soja and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Peter Smith
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351301233
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)
Download or read book Transnationalism from Below written by Michael Peter Smith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expansion of transnational capital and mass media to even the remotest of places has provoked a spate of discourse on transnationalism. A core theme hi this debate is the penetration of national cultures and political systems by global and local driving forces. The nation-state is seen as weakened by transnational capital, global media, and emergent supranational political institutions. It also faces the decentering local resistances of the informal economy, ethnic nationalism, and grass-roots activism. Transnationalism From Below brings together a rich combination of theoretical and grounded studies of transnational processes and practices, discussing both their positive and negative aspects. The editors examine the scope and limits of transnationalism. The volume is divided into four parts: "Theorizing Transnationalism"; "Transnational Economic and Political Agency"; "Constructing Transnational Localities"; and "Transnational Practices and Cultural Reinscription." Contriburtors include Andre C. Drainville, Josephine Smart, Alan Smart, Minna Nyberg S0rensen, George Fouron, Nina Glick Schiller, Luin Goldring, Sarah J. Mahler, Linda Miller Matthei, Louisa Schein, David A. Smith, and Robert C. Smith. Moving easily between micro and macro analyses, this book expands the boundaries of the current scholarship on transnationalism, locates new forms of transnational agency, and poses provocative questions that challenge prevailing interpretations of globalization. Transnationalism From Below is a pioneering collection that will make a significant addition to the libraries of anthropologists, sociologists, international relations specialists, urban planners, political scientists, and policymakers.
Author : Michael P. Smith
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781412816601
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (166 download)
Download or read book After Modernism written by Michael P. Smith and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joan Moore
Publisher : Russell Sage Foundation
ISBN 13 : 1610448375
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (14 download)
Download or read book In the Barrios written by Joan Moore and published by Russell Sage Foundation. This book was released on 1993-08-26 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The image of the "underclass," framed by persistent poverty, long-term joblessness, school dropout, teenage pregnancy, and drug use, has become synonymous with urban poverty. But does this image tell us enough about how the diverse minorities among the urban poor actually experience and cope with poverty? No, say the contributors to In the Barrios. Their portraits of eight Latino communities—in New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Houston, Chicago, Albuquerque, Laredo, and Tucson—reveal a far more complex reality. In the Barrios responds directly to current debates on the origins of the "underclass" and depicts the cultural, demographic, and historical forces that have shaped poor Latino communities. These neighborhoods share many hardships, yet they manifest no "typical" form of poverty. Instead, each group adapts its own cultural and social resources to the difficult economic circumstances of American urban life. The editors point to continued immigration as an issue of overriding importance in understanding urban Latino poverty. Newcomers to concentrated Latino areas build a local economy that provides affordable amenities and promotes ethnic institutional development. In many of these neighborhoods, a network of emotional as well as economic support extends across families and borders. The first major assessment of inner-city Latino communities in the United States, In the Barrios will change the way we approach the current debate on urban poverty, immigration, and the underclass.
Author : Gillian Evans
Publisher : Vernon Press
ISBN 13 : 1622738950
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (227 download)
Download or read book Post-Industrial Precarity: New Ethnographies of Urban Lives in Uncertain Times written by Gillian Evans and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2020-01-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United Nations predicts that by the year 2050 almost 70% of the planet’s population will be living in cities. The onus on social scientists is to explain the contemporary challenges posed by the urbanization of the world. A growing body of literature raises the alarm about the precarity of human existence in the uncertain conditions of rapidly transforming contemporary cities. This volume brings together a diverse collection of new ethnographies of precarious lives in various cities of the world. The specific focus on post-industrial cities in the UK allows for a wider consideration of the urban conditions and the political and economic climates which combine to produce extremely precarious living conditions for urban populations elsewhere in the world.The productive consequence of the comparisons and contrasts of various urban contexts, made possible by the volume, is an analytical focus on what it means for humans to live and occupy different subject positions under the advancing conditions of contemporary global capitalism. The volume’s chapters are also united by the shared commitment of early career social science scholars to ethnography as a research method. This gives a common methodological focus to diverse topics of substantive concern located in various cities of the world from Manchester, Newcastle and Salford in the north of England, to Detroit in the USA, Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, Turin in Italy and Beirut in Lebanon. Ethnography, relying as it does on long-term participant observation and in-depth open-ended interviewing, is uniquely valuable as a resource for bringing to life the unpredictable ways in which humans survive and develop forms of resilience among, for example, the ruins of dying cities. Ethnography also enables social scientists to understand and add depth to the surprising stories and apparent contradictions of everyday protest in the face of the increasing privatization of the public good and extreme inequalities of wealth. Ethnographically grounded analyses of urban life are therefore uniquely positioned to explain and critically analyse the new politics of popular resistance as the people who feel ‘left behind’ by society, or expelled from what might be described as the ‘exclusification’ of urban environments, push back against an economy and politics that appears to exist only for the private benefit of an indifferent elite population.
Author : Tim Allen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134771584
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)
Download or read book Culture and Global Change written by Tim Allen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-06-27 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Culture and Global Change presents a comprehensive introduction to the cultural aspects of third world development. It contains 25 chapters from leading writers in the field who each explore a particular aspect of 'culture' and the significance and meaning of cultural issues for different people in throughout the contemporary world. With chapters dealing with the importance of 'Third World' cultures but also with changes in Russia, Japan, the USA and the UK, this book considers the relationship between culture and development within a truly global context.
