Cities in Transition Globalization, Political Change and Urban Development /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Schneider-Sliwa, Rita (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2006.
• Series: The GeoJournal Library, 83
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Geography.; Regional planning.; Urban planning.; Human geography.; Social Sciences.; Human Geography.; Geography, general.; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning.

This book was written with the aim of showing that even in the era of globalization developments appearing in cities are not subject to almost unconditional global forces. Rather, universal forces are decisive eventualities in the process of urban restructuring, often influencing its course and spee...

Table of Contents:

• Global and local forces in cities undergoing political change
• Berlin: Coping with the past — looking ahead
• The political geography of an eternal city: Ethno-territorial fragmentation in a “united” Jerusalem
• Hong Kong: China’s global city
• Sarajevo: Isolation in a country falling apart
• Moscow: Capital of a decimated world power
• St. Petersburg: Kiosks as mediators of the new market economy
• Johannesburg: Life after Apartheid
• New perspectives for Vienna: Repositioning between East and West
• Brussels: Pseudo-capital of Europe. Perspectives of Belgium’s global city in-themaking
• Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City: The long struggle of two cities/Recovering from endless war
• Global change and local reality.