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Global City-Regions
Trends, Theory, Policy

Edited by Allen J. Scott

Price: £90.00 (hardback)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-829799-4
Publication date: 25 January 2001
488 pages, 33 line illus, 234x156 mm

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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

Description

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

Contents

Introduction , Allen J. Scott

Part I: Opening Arguments

1. Global City-Regions , Allen J. Scott, John Agnew, Edward W. Soja, and Michael Storper

Part II: On Practical Questions of Globalization and City-Region Development

2. How to Invite Prosperity from the Global Economy into a Region , Kenichi Ohmae

3. The World Bank and Global City-Regions: Reaching the Poor , James D. Wolfensohn

4. Quebec in an Era of Global City-Regions , Lucien Bouchard

Part III: The Global City-Region: A New Geographic Phenomenon?

5. Global City-Regions in the Twenty-First Century , Sir Peter Hall

6. Global Cities and Global City-Regions: A Comparison , Saskia Sassen

7. The Economic Role and Spatial Contradictions of Global City-Regions: The Functional, Cognitive, and Evolutionary Context , Roberto Camagni

8. Intercity Networks in a Globalizing Era , John Friedmann

Part IV: The Competitive Advantages of Global City-Regions

9. Regions and the New Economics of Competition , Michael E. Porter

10. Ontario as a North American Region-State, Toronto as a Global City-Region: Responding to the NAFTA Challenge , Thomas J. Courchene

Part V: Global City-Regions in Africa, Asia, and Latin America: Political and Economic Challenges

11. Local Governance and Social Diversity in the Developing World: New Challenges for Globalizing City-Regions , Richard Stren

12. Innovation and Risk-Taking: Urban Governance in Latin America , Tim Campbell

13. Intercity Competition and the Question of Economic Resilience: Globalization and Crisis in Asia , Michael Douglass

14. Repositioning of City-Regions: Korea after the Crisis , Won Bae Kim

Part VI: Social Inequalities and Immigrant Niches in Global City-Regions

15. Inequality in Global City-Regions , Susan S. Fainstein

16. The Immigrant Niche in Global City-Regions: Concept, Patterns, Controversy , Roger Waldinger

Part VII: Questions of Citizenship

17. Urban Citizenship and Globalization , James Holston

18. Istanbul's Conflicting Paths to Citizenship: Islamization and Globalization , Engin F. Isin

Part VIII: The New Collective Order of Global City-Regions

19. Governing Cities and Regions: Territorial Restructuring in a Global Age , Michael Keating

20. Lessons from Silicon Valley: Governance in a Global City-Region , Douglas Henton

21. Local Governance and Conflict Management: Reflections on a Brazilian Cluster , Hubert Schmitz

Part IX: Coda: Environmental Issues

22. Environmental Sustainability and Services in Developing Global City-Regions , Theodore Panayotou

Authors, editors, and contributors

Edited by Allen J. Scott, Professor, Department of Policy Studies and Department of Geography, University of California, Los Angeles

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Global City-RegionsTrends, Theory, Policy

Global City-Regions
Trends, Theory, Policy