Globalization and the city two connected phenomena in past and present
The world today is far less a global village than a "global city", as global network of multidimensional urban spaces of congestion prominently forming - and also formed by - globalization. But the relevance of cities is nothing but new. They were essential for culture and civilization wor...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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[Innsbruck, Austria] :
innsbruck university press
2013
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| Edición: | 1st edition |
| Colección: | Edited volume series.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009436024206719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface / Günter Bischof
- Introduction / Andreas Exenberger, Philipp Strobl
- No industrialization without urbanization : the role of class in modern economic development / Franz Mathis
- Global cities and the "new" world history : narratives and teaching perspectives from the United States after the fall of "Western civilization" / James Mokhiber
- Bringing economic geography back in : global cities and the governance of commodity chain / Christof Parnreiter
- Phenomenon of global cities in the ancient world / Brigitte Truschnegg
- New Orleans as a global city : contemporary assessment and past glory / Robert Dupont
- Zanzibar : imperialism, photo-globalization, and a nineteenth century Indian Ocean boom town / Erik Gilbert
- The evolution of a global city : Vienna's integration into the world city system / Robert Musil
- São Paulo : big, bigger, global? : the development of a megacity in the global South / Tobias Töpfer
- The reach of the continental blockade : the case of Toulouse / Andreas Dibiasi
- Designing a global city : Tokyo / Beate Löffler
- The Council of European Municipalities and Regions : shared governance in a world featured by globalization issues / Manfred Kohler.
