Rethinking global urbanism :
Rethinking global urbanism : comparative insights from secondary cities /
edited by Xiangming Chen
- New York, Routledge, 2012.
- xvii,: 269 p.
Formerly CIP.
Collection subset: Social Welfare
Bibliography note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Arguing that the focus in global urban studies on cities such as New York, London, Tokyo in the globalNorth, Mexico City and Shanghai in the developing world, and other major nodes of the world economy, has skewed the concept of the global city toward economics, this volume gathers a diverse group of contributors to focus on smaller and less economically dominant cities. Ithighlights other important and relatively ignored themes such as cultural globalization, alternative geographies of the global, and the influence of deeper urban ...
978041589223
Urbanization
Cities and towns.
Sociology, Urban.--Urbanization.
307.76 / RET
Formerly CIP.
Collection subset: Social Welfare
Bibliography note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Arguing that the focus in global urban studies on cities such as New York, London, Tokyo in the globalNorth, Mexico City and Shanghai in the developing world, and other major nodes of the world economy, has skewed the concept of the global city toward economics, this volume gathers a diverse group of contributors to focus on smaller and less economically dominant cities. Ithighlights other important and relatively ignored themes such as cultural globalization, alternative geographies of the global, and the influence of deeper urban ...
978041589223
Urbanization
Cities and towns.
Sociology, Urban.--Urbanization.
307.76 / RET