Global City-Regions: Trends, Theory, Policy

by Allen J. Scott

Overview

There are now more than three hundred city-regions around the world with populations of more than one million. As globalization intensifies, these city-regions come to pose many new questions and problems. This book presents a highly original and multifaceted review of these issues by some of the leading researchers in the field. It seeks at once to define the question of global city-regions and to describe the internal and external dynamics that shape them; it proposes a theorization of global city-regions based on their economic and political responses to intensifying levels of globalization; and it offers a number of policy insights into the severe social problems that confront global city-regions as they come face to face with an economically and politically neoliberal world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198297994
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	03/29/2001
Pages:	484
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

Allen J. Scott was born in England and educated at Oxford University. He is currently professor jointly appointed to the Departments of Policy Studies and Geography at the University of California, Los Angeles. He was a recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship in 1986-7, and was awarded Honors by the Association of American Geographers in 1987. He was elected as corresponding fellow of the British Academy in 1999. In the winter of 1998-9 he occupied the André Siegfried Chair in the Institut d'Etudes Politiques, Paris. His most recent books are Regions and the World Economy (Oxford University Press, 1998) and The Cultural Economy of Cities (Sage, 2000).

Table of Contents

Introduction, Allen J. ScottPart I: Opening Arguments1. Global City-Regions, Allen J. Scott, John Agnew, Edward W. Soja, and Michael StorperPart II: On Practical Questions of Globalization and City-Region Development2. How to Invite Prosperity from the Global Economy into a Region, Kenichi Ohmae3. The World Bank and Global City-Regions: Reaching the Poor, James D. Wolfensohn4. Quebec in an Era of Global City-Regions, Lucien BouchardPart III: The Global City-Region: A New Geographic Phenomenon?5. Global City-Regions in the Twenty-First Century, Sir Peter Hall6. Global Cities and Global City-Regions: A Comparison, Saskia Sassen7. The Economic Role and Spatial Contradictions of Global City-Regions: The Functional, Cognitive, and Evolutionary Context, Roberto Camagni8. Intercity Networks in a Globalizing Era, John FriedmannPart IV: The Competitive Advantages of Global City-Regions9. Regions and the New Economics of Competition, Michael E. Porter10. Ontario as a North American Region-State, Toronto as a Global City-Region: Responding to the NAFTA Challenge, Thomas J. CourchenePart V: Global City-Regions in Africa, Asia, and Latin America: Political and Economic Challenges11. Local Governance and Social Diversity in the Developing World: New Challenges for Globalizing City-Regions, Richard Stren12. Innovation and Risk-Taking: Urban Governance in Latin America, Tim Campbell13. Intercity Competition and the Question of Economic Resilience: Globalization and Crisis in Asia, Michael Douglass14. Repositioning of City-Regions: Korea after the Crisis, Won Bae KimPart VI: Social Inequalities and Immigrant Niches in Global City-Regions15. Inequality in Global City-Regions, Susan S. Fainstein16. The Immigrant Niche in Global City-Regions: Concept, Patterns, Controversy, Roger WaldingerPart VII: Questions of Citizenship17. Urban Citizenship and Globalization, James Holston18. Istanbul's Conflicting Paths to Citizenship: Islamization and Globalization, Engin F. IsinPart VIII: The New Collective Order of Global City-Regions19. Governing Cities and Regions: Territorial Restructuring in a Global Age, Michael Keating20. Lessons from Silicon Valley: Governance in a Global City-Region, Douglas Henton21. Local Governance and Conflict Management: Reflections on a Brazilian Cluster, Hubert SchmitzPart IX: Coda: Environmental Issues22. Environmental Sustainability and Services in Developing Global City-Regions, Theodore Panayotou