Cities in transition : globalization, political change and urban development / edited by Rita Schneider-Sliwa.

Contributor(s):

Schneider-Sliwa, Rita [editor]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: GeoJournal library ; v. 83Publication details: Dordrecht : Springer, 2006.Description: xi, 333 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cmContent type:

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ISBN:

9781402038662
1402038666

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DDC classification:

307.1416

Contents:

1. Global and local forces in cities undergoing political change/ Rita Schneider-Sliwa -- 2. Berlin: Coping with the past - looking ahead/ Karl Lenz -- 3. The political geography of an eternal city: Ethno-territorial fragmentation in a "united" Jerusalem/ David Newman -- 4. Hong Kong: China's global city/ Werner Breitung -- 5. Sarajevo: Isolation in a country falling apart/ Dusan Simko -- 6. Moscow: Capital of a decimated world power/ Jorg Stadelbauer -- 7. St. Petersburg: Kiosks as mediators of the new market economy/ Alexander Papadopoulos and Konstantin Axenov -- 8. Johannesburg: Life after Apartheid/ Jurgen Bahr and Ulrich Jurgens -- 9. New perspectives for Vienna: Repositioning between East and West/ Andrea kampschulte -- 10. Brussels: Pseudo-capital of Europe. Perspectives of Belgium's global city in-the-making/ Alexander Papadopoulos -- 11. Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City: The long struggle of two cities/ Recovering from endless war/ Rudolf Marr -- 12. Global change and local reality/ Rita Schneider-Sliwa.

Summary: "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 speed, yet developments and particularities within a city strongly influence the course of events and the extent to which negative characteristics of globalization might occur. Berlin, Brussels, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong, Jerusalem, Johannesburg, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Sarajevo and Vienna: Using these important cities the special relationship between global and local/regional forces is analyzed. The case studies were selected based on their political and cultural context and the fact that their social and political fabric was subject to major changes in the recent past. How global processes manifest themselves locally depends to a great extent on how development processes and endogenic potentials are initiated locally in order to cope with the new global economic and societal conditions."-- Publisher's description.

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"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 speed, yet developments and particularities within a city strongly influence the course of events and the extent to which negative characteristics of globalization might occur.
Berlin, Brussels, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong, Jerusalem, Johannesburg, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Sarajevo and Vienna: Using these important cities the special relationship between global and local/regional forces is analyzed. The case studies were selected based on their political and cultural context and the fact that their social and political fabric was subject to major changes in the recent past. How global processes manifest themselves locally depends to a great extent on how development processes and endogenic potentials are initiated locally in order to cope with the new global economic and societal conditions."-- Publisher's description.