Editors:
- Challenges Sassen's hypothesis that globalization as a process forces uniformity upon individual regions or cities and imprints macro-cultural structural patterns onto local forms
Part of the book series: GeoJournal Library (GEJL, volume 83)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Theoretical Framework
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Power Transferred
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Development Handicapped
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Synopsis
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Back Matter
About this book
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.Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Geosciences, Urban and Regional Studies, University of Basel, Switzerland
Rita Schneider-Sliwa
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Cities in Transition
Book Subtitle: Globalization, Political Change and Urban Development
Editors: Rita Schneider-Sliwa
Series Title: GeoJournal Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3867-4
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature B.V. 2006
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-3866-2Published: 25 November 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-6985-6Published: 30 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-3867-9Published: 23 January 2006
Series ISSN: 0924-5499
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0072
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 340
Additional Information: Original German edition published by Dietrich Reimer Verlag GmbH, Germany, 2002
Topics: Human Geography, Geography, general, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning