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Global Cities at Work

Author : Jane Wills
Publisher : Pluto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780745327983
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (279 download)

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Download or read book Global Cities at Work written by Jane Wills and published by Pluto Press. This book was released on 2010-01-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the people who always get taken for granted. The people who clean our offices and trains, care for our elders and change the sheets on the bed. Global Cities at Work draws on testimony collected from more than 800 foreign-born workers employed in low-paid jobs in London during the early years of the new century. Global Cities at Work breaks new ground in linking London's new migrant division of labor to the twin processes of subcontracting and increased international migration that have been central to contemporary processes of globalization. Global Cities at Work raises the level of debate about migrant labor, encouraging policy-makers, journalists and social scientists to look behind the headlines. The book calls us to take a politically-informed geographical view of our urban labor markets and to prioritize the issue of working poverty and its implications for both unemployment and community cohesion.

How Ten Global Cities Take On Homelessness

Author : Linda Gibbs
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520975618
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book How Ten Global Cities Take On Homelessness written by Linda Gibbs and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creative solutions for global cities addressing their urgent homeless crises. This book takes on perhaps the most formidable issue facing metropolitan areas today: the large numbers of people experiencing homelessness within cities. Four dedicated experts with first-hand experience profile ten cities—Bogota, Mexico City, Los Angeles, Houston, Nashville, New York City, Baltimore, Edmonton, Paris, and Athens—to explore ideas, strategies, successes, and failures. Together they bring an array of government, nonprofit, and academic perspectives to offer a truly global perspective. The authors answer essential questions about the nature and causes of homelessness and analyze how cities have used innovation and local political coordination to address this pervasive problem. Ten Global Cities will be an invaluable resource not only for students of policy and social work but for municipal, regional, and national policymakers; nonprofit service providers; community advocates and activists; and all citizens who want to collaborate for real change. These authors argue that homelessness is not an insurmountable social condition, and their examples show that cities and individuals working in coordination can lead the charge for better outcomes.

Global Cities

Author : Robert Gottlieb
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262338874
Total Pages : 471 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book Global Cities written by Robert Gottlieb and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2017-05-19 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and China deal with such urban environmental issues as ports, goods movement, air pollution, water quality, transportation, and public space. Over the past four decades, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and key urban regions of China have emerged as global cities—in financial, political, cultural, environmental, and demographic terms. In this book, Robert Gottlieb and Simon Ng trace the global emergence of these urban areas and compare their responses to a set of six urban environmental issues. These cities have different patterns of development: Los Angeles has been the quintessential horizontal city, the capital of sprawl; Hong Kong is dense and vertical; China's new megacities in the Pearl River Delta, created by an explosion in industrial development and a vast migration from rural to urban areas, combine the vertical and the horizontal. All three have experienced major environmental changes in a relatively short period of time. Gottlieb and Ng document how each has dealt with challenges posed by ports and the movement of goods, air pollution (Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and urban China are all notorious for their hazardous air quality), water supply (all three places are dependent on massive transfers of water) and water quality, the food system (from seed to table), transportation, and public and private space. Finally they discuss the possibility of change brought about by policy initiatives and social movements.

Global Cities

Author : Greg Clark
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
ISBN 13 : 0815728921
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (157 download)

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Download or read book Global Cities written by Greg Clark and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2016-11-29 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why have some cities become great global urban centers, and what cities will be future leaders? From Athens and Rome in ancient times to New York and Singapore today, a handful of cities have stood out as centers of global economic, military, or political power. In the twenty-first century, the number of truly global cities is greater than ever before, reflecting the globalization of both economic and political power. In Global Cities: A Short History, Greg Clark, an internationally renowned British urbanist, examines the enduring forces—such as trade, migration, war, and technology—that have enabled some cities to emerge from the pack into global leadership. Much more than a historical review, Clark’s book looks to the future, examining the trends that are transforming cities around the world as well as the new challenges all global cities, increasingly, will face. Which cities will be the global leaders of tomorrow? What are the common issues and opportunities they will face? What kinds of leadership can make these cities competitive and resilient? Clark offers answers to these and similar questions in a book that will be of interest to anyone who lives in or is affected by the world’s great urban areas.

The Global City

Author : Saskia Sassen
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400847486
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book The Global City written by Saskia Sassen and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-04 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic work chronicles how New York, London, and Tokyo became command centers for the global economy and in the process underwent a series of massive and parallel changes. What distinguishes Sassen's theoretical framework is the emphasis on the formation of cross-border dynamics through which these cities and the growing number of other global cities begin to form strategic transnational networks. All the core data in this new edition have been updated, while the preface and epilogue discuss the relevant trends in globalization since the book originally came out in 1991.

Global Cities

Author : Anthony King
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317504178
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book Global Cities written by Anthony King and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-27 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the late 1970s the role of key world cities such as Los Angeles, New York and London as centres of global control and co-ordination has come under increasing scrutiny. This book provides an overview and critique of work on the global context of metropolitan growth, world city formation and the theory it has generated. Suggesting ‘post-imperialism’ as the most appropriate framework for analysis, the author demonstrates the extent to which urban and regional development, both in Britain and elsewhere, were linked to a colonial mode of production, and highlights the effects of its disappearance. Against this background, the author charts the transformation of London from imperial capital in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to world city in the capitalist world economy of today.

Global Cities

Author : Mark Abrahamson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Global Cities written by Mark Abrahamson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2004 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abrahamson's book, accessible to undergraduates with little background in sociology or social science, investigates the effect of globalizationon the world's major cities through an exploration of both the economic and cultural dimensions associated with this phenomenon. Unlike other books on the topic, Abrahamson produces a detailed and multi-faceted picture of these cities, covering leading urban centres such as London, New York, Tokyo and Paris, but also branching out to other cities in the global system.

Global City Regions

Author : Gary Hack
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135159513
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (351 download)

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Download or read book Global City Regions written by Gary Hack and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique comparative study based on funded research, of eleven city regions across three continents looking at changes over the last 30 years. Detailed changes in land use are presented here with series of maps prepared especially for the study. 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. The book features numerous maps which underline research findings. Cities covered are: Ankara, Bangkok, Boston, Madrid, Randstad, San Diego, Chile, Sao Paulo, Seattle and the Central Puget, Taipei, Tokyo, West Midlands.

Global Cities, Governance and Diplomacy

Author : Michele Acuto
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415660882
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (156 download)

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Download or read book Global Cities, Governance and Diplomacy written by Michele Acuto and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book argues that looking at global cities can bring about three fundamental advantages on traditional IR paradigms. First, it facilitates an eclectic turn towards more nuanced analyses of world politics. Second, it widens the horizon of the discipline through a multiscalar image of global governance. Third, it underscores how global cities have a strategic diplomatic positioning when it comes to core contemporary challenges such as climate change.

Global City Makers

Author : Michael Hoyler
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1785368958
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book Global City Makers written by Michael Hoyler and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2018-09-28 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global City Makers provides an in-depth account of the role of powerful economic actors in making and un-making global cities. Engaging critically and constructively with global urban studies from a relational economic geography perspective, the book outlines a renewed agenda for global cities research. Focusing on financial services, management consultancy, real estate, commodity trading and maritime industries, the detailed studies in this volume are located across the globe to incorporate major world cities such as London, New York and Tokyo as well as globalizing cities including Mexico City, Hamburg and Mumbai.

How to Build a Global City

Author : Michele Acuto
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501759728
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book How to Build a Global City written by Michele Acuto and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-15 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In How to Build a Global City, Michele Acuto considers the rise of a new generation of so-called global cities—Singapore, Sydney, and Dubai—and the power that this concept had in their ascent, in order to analyze the general relationship between global city theory and its urban public policy practice. The global city is often invoked in theory and practice as an ideal model of development and a logic of internationalization for cities the world over. But the global city also creates deep social polarization and challenges how much local planning can achieve in a world economy. Presenting a unique elite ethnography in Singapore, Sydney, and Dubai, Acuto discusses the global urban discourses, aspirations, and strategies vital to the planning and management of such metropolitan growth. The global city, he shows, is not one single idea, but a complex of ways to imagine a place to be global and aspirations to make it so, often deeply steeped in politics. His resulting book is a call to reconcile proponents and critics of the global city toward a more explicit engagement with the politics of this global urban imagination.

The World's Cities

Author : Andrew James Jacobs
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415894859
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (158 download)

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Download or read book The World's Cities written by Andrew James Jacobs and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The World’s Cities offers instructors and students in higher education an accessible introduction to the three major perspectives influencing city-regions worldwide: City-Regions in a World System; Nested City-Regions; and The City-Region as the Engine of Economic Activity/Growth. The book provides students with helpful essays on each perspective, case studies to illustrate each major viewpoint, and discussion questions following each reading. The World’s Cities concludes with an original essay by the editor that helps students understand how an analysis incorporating a combination of theoretical perspectives and factors can provide a richer appreciation of the world’s city dynamics.

Global Cities at Work

Author : Jane Wills
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781783715398
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (153 download)

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Download or read book Global Cities at Work written by Jane Wills and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

International Handbook of Globalization and World Cities

Author : Ben Derudder
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1781001014
Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book International Handbook of Globalization and World Cities written by Ben Derudder and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Handbook offers an unrivalled overview of current research into how globalization is affecting the external relations and internal structures of major cities in the world. By treating cities at a global scale, it focuses on the 'stretching' of urban functions beyond specific place locations, without losing sight of the multiple divisions in contemporary world cities. The book firmly bases city networks in their historical context, critically discusses contemporary concepts and key empirical measures, and analyses major issues relating to world city infrastructures, economies, governance and divisions. The variety of urban outcomes in contemporary globalization is explored through detailed case studies. Edited by leading scholars of the Globalization and World Cities (GaWC) Research Network and written by over 60 experts in the field, the Handbook is a unique resource for students, researchers and academics in urban and globalization studies as well as for city professionals in planning and policy.

Class Inequality in the Global City

Author : J. Ye
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137436158
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book Class Inequality in the Global City written by J. Ye and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In striving to become cosmopolitan, global cities aim to attract highly-skilled workers while relying on a vast underbelly of low-waged, low status migrants. This book tells the story of one such city, revealing how national development produces both aspirations to be cosmopolitan and to improve one's class standing, along with limitations in achieving such aims. Through the analysis of three different groups of workers in Singapore, Ye shows that cosmopolitanism is an exclusive and aspirational construct created through global and national development strategies, transnational migration and individual senses of identity. This dialectic relationship between class and cosmopolitanism is never free from power and is constituted through material and symbolic conditions, struggles and violence. Class is also constituted through 'the self' and lies at the very heart of different constructions of personhood as they intersect with gender, race, sexuality, ethnicity and nationality.

Arts, Culture and the Making of Global Cities

Author : Lily Kong
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1784715840
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (847 download)

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Download or read book Arts, Culture and the Making of Global Cities written by Lily Kong and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2015-01-30 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While global cities have mostly been characterized as sites of intensive and extensive economic activity, the quest for global city status also increasingly rests on the creative production and consumption of culture and the arts. Arts, Culture and the

DiverCity - Global Cities as a Literary Phenomenon

Author : Melanie U. Pooch
Publisher : Transcript Verlag, Roswitha Gost, Sigrid Nokel u. Dr. Karin Werner
ISBN 13 : 9783837635416
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (354 download)

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Download or read book DiverCity - Global Cities as a Literary Phenomenon written by Melanie U. Pooch and published by Transcript Verlag, Roswitha Gost, Sigrid Nokel u. Dr. Karin Werner. This book was released on 2016-02 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work examines global cities as a literary phenomenon, the "DiverCity," based on the reading of selected North American novels. By analyzing Dionne Brand's Toronto in What We All Long For, Chang-rae Lee's New York in Native Speaker, and Karen Tei Yamashita's Los Angeles in Tropic of Orange, Melanie U. Pooch provides the connecting link for exploring the triad of globalization and its effects, global cities as cultural nodal points, and cultural diversity in a globalizing age as a literary phenomenon.