Description
Book SynopsisProposes 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 difficulties experienced by these metropolises.
Trade Review“. . . fills an important gap in the literature and offers a novel and comparative vision of a process that is currently in full development.”— Rafael Martín Rodríguez, Fudan University
Table of Contents
- Introduction by the editor
- PART I ASIA: CENTRE OF GROWTH AND GLOBALITY
- Chapter 1
- Chinese Cities from the Ground to the Sky: Building Suzhou as a Global City beyond the Tradition
- Raffaele Pernice
- Chapter 2
- The Urban Geographies of a Small Island: A Dialectical Spatial Approach
- Gang Hong
- Chapter 3
- The rise of Chongqing and Queretaro: the territorial dimension of the divergent trajectories of two emerging urban economies in China and Mexico
- Miguel Hidalgo Martinez
- Chapter 4
- Migration, expatriation, and heterosexuality in a globalized city – Singapore
- Liangni Sally Liu
- Chapter 5
- City-regions reconsidered
- Allen J. Scott
- PART II LATIN AMERICA: OPENING, GLOBALIZATION AND CRISIS
- Chapter 6
- Global Cities in Peripheral Countries: Argentina in the New International Labor Division
- Ulises Girolimo, and Patricio Feldman
- Chapter 7
- Regional Planning, Development, and Governance of Metropolitan Secondary City Clusters: Case Study of Santiago and Central Chile Region
- Brian Roberts, JosÉ TomÁs Videla, and Marcela AlluÉ Nualart
- Chapter 8
- Change of the society consumption in Peru during the globalization process
- Nadia Nora Urriola Canchari
- Chapter 9
- Urban Conflict and Transnational Crime in Latin American Cities
- John P. Sullivan
- Chapter 10
- The emergence of a global urban region: The Urban Corridor automotive and aeronautical in the Central - BajÍo Region, Mexico
- AdriÁn Moreno Mata
- Chapter 11
- Economy, Inequalities and Cities. Chinese influence in Latin America
- Pablo Baisotti
- Conclusion
- Contributors
