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...