Globalization and Urban Development

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Richardson, Harry W. (Editor), Bae, Chang-Hee Christine (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2005.
• Series: Advances in Spatial Science,
• Subjects: History.; Economic geography.; Regional planning.; Urban planning.; Regional economics.; Spatial economics.; Economics.; Regional/Spatial Science.; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning.; Economic Geography.; History, general.

Most research on globalization has focused on macroeconomic and economy-wide consequences. This book explores an under-researched area, the impacts of globalization on cities and national urban hierarchies, especially but not solely in developing countries. Most of the globalization-urban research h...

Table of Contents:

• Globalization in General
• Globalization, spatial allocation of resources and spatial impacts: A conceptual framework
• Urban development in the global periphery: The consequences of economic and ideological globalization
• The Urban Hierarchy
• Impact of globalization on cities and city-related policies in India
• The impacts of globalization on the urban spatial-economic system in Korea
• Trade openness and regional development in a developing country
• Do the donors have it right? Decentralization and changing local governance in Indonesia
• South Africa in the global context: The view from above and below
• City-Specific Studies
• The Rio/São Paulo Extended Metropolitan Region: A quest for global integration
• Mexico City as a peripheral global player: The two sides of the coin
• Globalization and Latin America: Understanding the global links of Colombia’s capital
• Tijuana-San Diego: Globalization and the transborder metropolis
• Globalization and Los Angeles
• The impacts of globalization on St. Petersburg: A secondary world city in from the cold?
• Building world city Tokyo: Globalization and conflict over urban space
• Measuring world city formation — The case of Shanghai
• Karachi — a case of asymmetric inclusion in the current globalization?
• Issues
• Information technology and urban spatial structure: A comparative analysis of the Chicago and Seoul regions
• Globalization and urban environmental transitions: Comparison of New York’s and Tokyo’s experiences
• Above and below the line: Globalization and urban form in Bangkok.