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Rethinking global urbanism : comparative insights from secondary cities /

Arguing that the focus in global urban studies on cities such as New York, London, Tokyo in the global North, 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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Chen, Xiangming, 1955-, Kanna, Ahmed
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Routledge, 2012.
Colección:Routledge advances in geography ; 7.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. 1. Urban present and past : how culture, history, and politics shape global and local cityscapes
  • pt. 2. Urban contraction and expansion : economic restructuring and governance in de-globalizing and globalizingsecondary cities
  • pt. 3. The contested urban arena : identity and exclusion in secondary cities.