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Book SynopsisDrawing on eight case studies from key cities on the periphery of global cities literature, this book argues that all cities are globalizing in important ways. Case studies of Frankfurt, Johannesburg, Bangkok, Manila, Tampa, Sydney, Brussels, and Caracas provide the basis for an alternative theoretical approach to global city formation.
Trade ReviewThis excellent collection of studies of 'peripheral' globalizing of cities offers a fresh critical alternative to the reigning 'global' and 'world' cities perspectives. It will make compelling reading for all interested in the socio-spatial hierarchies and inequalities emerging in the new urban geography of global social relations. Crucially, this book offers an analytical antidote to economistic and depoliticized accounts of urban actors in 'negotiated' globalization processes today. -- Barry Gills, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Relocating Global Cities is a book that urban and economic geographers from all world regions should find of interest and relevance....The editors have succeeded in packaging the collected works into a worthwhile synthesis of data and perspectives on global cities and their evolution. -- Murray D. Rice * Professional Geographer *
This is an exemplary edited collection...This book is to be welcomed as a truly thoughtful addition to the growing literature on urban politics in both wealthy and poor cities. I enthusiastically recomment it to...readers. * Economic Geography *
Analyzing the global social dynamics impacting world cities as diverse as Frankfurt, Manila, and Johannesburg, the essays compiled in this brilliant study represent a seminal contribution to the rapidly growing 'global cities' literature. Focused, innovative, and critical, this book advances our understanding of those complex and uneven processes that go by the name of globalization. -- Manfred B. Steger, Professor of Global Politics, University of Hawai'i-Manoa
Table of ContentsChapter 1 Foreword Chapter 2 Thinking Through Global Cities Chapter 3 In London's Long Shadow: Frankfurt in the European Space of Flows Chapter 4 Johannesburg 1986–2030: A Quest to Regain World Status Chapter 5 Bangkok: Intentional World City Chapter 6 Laboring in the Periphery: The Place of Manila in the Global Economy Chapter 7 Place-Imaging Tampa in the Age of Globalization Chapter 8 Gentrification, Globalization, and Governance: The Reterritorialization of Sydney's City-State Chapter 9 Reluctant Globalizers: The Paradoxes of "Glocal" Development in Brussels Chapter 10 The Processes Underlying Caracas as a Globalizing City Chapter 11 Reconsidering the Social Structuration of Globalization
