New global cities in Latin America and Asia welcome to the twenty-first century

Global Cities in Latin America and Asia: Welcome to the Twenty-First Century proposes new visions of global cities and regions historically considered "secondary" in the international context. The arguments are not only based on material progress, but also on the growing social difficultie...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Baisotti, Pablo Alberto (-)
Otros Autores: Baisotti, Pablo Alberto, editor (editor)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press 2022.
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009655500506719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Asia: Center of Growth and Globalism
  • 1. Chinese Cities from the Ground to the Sky: Building Suzhou as a Global City beyond Tradition | Raffaele Pernice
  • 2. The Urban Geographies of a Small Island: A Dialectical Spatial Approach | Hong Gang
  • 3. The Rise of Chongqing and Queretaro: The Territorial Dimension of the Divergent Trajectories of Two Emerging Urban Economies in China and Mexico | Miguel Ángel Hidalgo Martínez
  • 4. Migration, Expatriation, and Heterosexuality in a Globalized City-Singapore | Liangni Sally Liu
  • 5. City-Regions Reconsidered | Allen J. Scott
  • Part II. Latin America: Opening, Globalization, and Crisis
  • 6. Global Cities in Peripheral Countries: Argentina in the New International Labor Division | Ulises Girolimo and Patricio Feldman
  • 7. The Regional Planning, Development, and Governance of Metropolitan Secondary City Clusters: A Case Study of Santiago and the Central Chile Region | Brian Roberts, José Tomás Videla, and Marcela Allué Nualart
  • 8. Changes in Consumption in Peru during the Globalization Process | Nadia Nora Urriola Canchari
  • 9. Urban Conflict and Transnational Crime in Latin American Cities | John P. Sullivan
  • 10. The Emergence of a Global Urban Region: The Urban Corridor Automotive and Aeronautical Industries in the Central-Bajío Region, Mexico | Adrián Moreno Mata
  • 11. Economy, Inequalities, and Cities: Chinese Influence in Latin America | Pablo Baisotti
  • General Conclusions
  • Contributors
  • Index.