Of States and Cities
The Partitioning of Urban Space
Published on 2. May 2002
Book
Hardback
312 pages
978-0-19-829719-2 (ISBN)
Description
The nature and effects of globalization are coming under critical scrutiny across all continents. This book focuses on one aspect, the globalization of cities. It examines the claim that the state is powerless to influence events, and that history, geography, and culture have become irrelevant in the worldwide trend towards a uniform urban model; a model which features increased segregation, decline of the central city, and social polarization.
The international team of contributors is well placed to put these claims in perspective. Drawing on their experiences of cities as diverse as New York and Warsaw, Istanbul and Sao Paulo, they demonstrate that states and cities have adopted widely varying approaches to the advent of globalization; and that its impact has been constrained by each city's history, physical layout, location, environment, role in the international economy, and demographic composition. The diversity of urban development and political response revealed is enormous, and provides ample practical examples of what might be done to bring about improvements for the increasing number of people who live in cities.
The international team of contributors is well placed to put these claims in perspective. Drawing on their experiences of cities as diverse as New York and Warsaw, Istanbul and Sao Paulo, they demonstrate that states and cities have adopted widely varying approaches to the advent of globalization; and that its impact has been constrained by each city's history, physical layout, location, environment, role in the international economy, and demographic composition. The diversity of urban development and political response revealed is enormous, and provides ample practical examples of what might be done to bring about improvements for the increasing number of people who live in cities.
Reviews / Votes
There is much of value here both in some of the substantive detail and in the agenda of questions raised for further work. * Development Policy Review * There is much fascinating material here, careful, empirical, sober, and, insofar as it is possible, open-minded. * Development Policy Review * Marcuse's history of the creation and successive transformations of the black ghetto in the US is particuarly good, as also is the account of the change from the communist to the post-communist era in Budapest and Polish cities. * Development Policy Review *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
numerous tables maps and figures
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
628 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-829719-2 (9780198297192)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Content
1. States and Cities and the Partitioning of Urban Space: Introduction ; 2. The Divided City in History ; 3. The Academic Formulations: Explanations of the Partitioned City ; 4. The Poor City: National and Local Perspectives on Changes in Residential Patterns in the British City ; 5. Towards Partitioned Cities in the Netherlands? Changing Patterns of Segregation in a Highly Developed Welfare State ; 6. The Shifting Meaning of the Black Ghetto in the United States ; 7. Economic Restructuring and Urban Segregation in Sao Paulo ; 8. Residential Segregation among Social and Ethnic Groups in Budapest during the Post-communist Transition ; 9. From Egalitarion Cities in Theory to Non-Egalitarian Cities in Practice: The Changing Social and Spatial Patterns in Polish Cities ; 10. A Metropolis at the Crossroads: The Changing Social Geography of Istanbul under the Impact of Globalization ; 11. The Rise of Advanced Marginality: Notes on its Nature and Implications ; 12. Poverty Pockets and Social Exclusion: On the Role of Place in Shaping Social Inequality ; 13. States and Cities and the Partitioning of Urban Space: Conclusions ; Afterword on September 11 ; Index