Rethinking global urbanism : comparative insights from secondary cities / edited by Xiangming Chen

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Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: Routledge, 2012. New York,Description: xvii,: 269 pISBN:

978041589223

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307.76 RET

Summary: 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 ...

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Books	Library, SPAB E-2	Non Fiction	307.76 RET (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		007020

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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 ...

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