Making Cities Global: The Transnational Turn in Urban History

Making Cities Global: The Transnational Turn in Urban History

Making Cities Global: The Transnational Turn in Urban History

Making Cities Global: The Transnational Turn in Urban History

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Overview

In recent decades, hundreds of millions of people across the world have moved from rural areas to metropolitan regions, some of them crossing national borders on the way. While urbanization and globalization are proceeding with an intensity that seems unprecedented, these are only the most recent iterations of long-term transformations—cities have for centuries served as vital points of contact between different peoples, economies, and cultures. Making Cities Global explores the intertwined development of urbanization and globalization using a historical approach that demonstrates the many forms transnationalism has taken, each shaped by the circumstances of a particular time and place. It also emphasizes that globalization has not been persistent or automatic—many people have been as likely to resist or reject outside connections as to establish or embrace them.

The essays in the collection revolve around three foundational themes. The first is an emphasis on connections among the United States, East and Southeast Asia, Latin America, and South Asia. Second, contributors ground their studies of globalization in the built environments and everyday interactions of the city, because even world-spanning practices must be understood as people experience them in their neighborhoods, workplaces, stores, and streets. Last is a fundamental concern with the role powerful empires and nation-states play in the emergence of globalizing and urbanizing processes.

Making Cities Global argues that combining urban history with a transnational approach leads to a richer understanding of our increasingly interconnected world. In order to achieve prosperity, peace, and sustainability in metropolitan areas in the present and into the future, we must understand their historical origins and development.

Contributors: Erica Allen-Kim, Leandro Benmergui, Matt Garcia, Richard Harris, Carola Hein, Nancy Kwak, Carl Nightingale, Amy C. Offner, Margaret O'Mara, Nikhil Rao, A. K. Sandoval-Strausz, Arijit Sen, Thomas J. Sugrue.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780812249545
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Publication date: 10/18/2017
Pages: 352
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.80(h) x 0.20(d)

About the Author

A. K. Sandoval-Strausz is Associate Professor of History at Penn State Universityand author of Hotel: An American History. Nancy Kwak is Associate Professor of History at the University of California-San Diego and author of A World of Homeowners: American Power and the Politics of Housing Aid. Thomas J. Sugrue is Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and History and Director of the Collaborative on Global Urbanism at New York University.

Table of Contents

Foreword Thomas J. Sugrue vii

Introduction. Wiry Transnationalize Urban History? A. K. Sandoval-Strausz Nancy H. Kwak 1

Part I Globalization and Governance

Chapter 1 Silicon Dreams: States, Markets, and the Transnational High-Tech Suburb Margaret O'Mara 17

Chapter 2 Homeownership and Social Welfare in the Americas: Ciudad Kennedy as a Midcentury Crossroads Amy C. Offner 47

Chapter 3 Building the Alliance for Progress: Local and Transnational Encounters in a Low-Income Housing Program in Rio de Janeiro, 1962-67 Leandro Benmergui 71

Chapter 4 Slum Clearance as a Transnational Process in Globalizing Manila Nancy H. Kwak 98

Chapter 5 Crossing Boundaries: The Global Exchange of Planning Ideas Carola Hein 114

Part II Place, Culture, and Power

Chapter 6 Condos in the Mall: Suburban Transnational Typological Transformations in Markham, Ontario Erica Allen-Kim 133

Chapter 7 Requiem for a Barrio: Race, Space, and Gentrification in Southern California Matt Garcia 166

Chapter 8 Transnational Performances in Chicago's Independence Day Parade Arijit Sen 191

Chapter 9 Transnational Urban Meanings: The Passage of "Suburb" to India and Its Rough Reception Richard Harris 223

Chapter 10 Suburbanization and Urban Practice in India Nikhil Rao 241

Chapter 11 Will the Transnational City Be Digitized? The Dialectics of Diversified Spatial Media and Expanded Spatial Scopes Carl H. Nightingale 252

Notes 265

List of Contributors 321

Index 325

Acknowledgments 339

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