Global Cities - Metropolitan Cultures

A Transatlantic Perspective. Edited by Barbara Hahn and Meike Zwingenberger.

In eight essays, authors with backgrounds in different fields of research such as geography, sociology, history, and political science look at global cities from various angles. Globalization and urban networks are not a new phenomenon, but have gained momentum since the 1980s. The domination of capital over labor, the restructuring of employment, the polarization of class division and political conflicts have created an urban hierarchy with cities like Tokyo, Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, London, and Paris at the top. However, smaller cities located in the semi-periphery form important links in the global network as well. Among the topics discussed in this volume are the hierarchy of global cities and the restructuring process within global cities, public policy and urban politics, the rising vulnerability, urban governance, the political sector in Washington, DC, the assimilation of different migrant populations, and the culture of Dancehall Reggae. -- Contents: Susan S. Fainstein: Ups and Downs of Global Cities. - Susan E. Clarke: Global Cities, Metropolitan Cultures, Multicultural Politics. - Roger Keil: Global Cities. Connectivity, Vulnerability, and Resilience. - Karsten Zimmermann: Local Government and the Dynamics of Place. Globalizing Cities as an Artifact of the World Economy and as a Political Project. - Ulrike Gerhard: Global City Washington, D.C. An Urban Geography of the Political Sector. - Kathleen Neils Conzen: Before the Chicago School. Vernacular Assimilation Theory in Later 19th Century Immigrant Chicago. - Werner Zips: »Island of the Gun«. Jamaica's Global City of Crime and Violence. - Caroline Nagel/Lynn Staeheli: CIT and Geographies of Belonging. Locating Immigrant Activism on the Internet and on the Ground. - VIII,165 Seiten mit 6 Abb. und Tab., gebunden (Publications of the Bavarian American Academy; Vol. 11/Universitätsverlag Winter 2011) leichte Lagerspuren/minor shelfwear