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Cities in Transition

Globalization, Political Change and Urban Development

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Editors:
  1. Rita Schneider-Sliwa

    1. Department of Geosciences, Urban and Regional Studies, University of Basel, Switzerland

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  • 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)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Theoretical Framework

    1. Global and local forces in cities undergoing political change

      • Rita Schneider-Sliwa
      Pages 1-8

  4. Power Transferred

    1. Hong Kong: China’s global city

      • W. Breitung
      Pages 67-94

    2. Sarajevo: Isolation in a country falling apart

      • D. Šimko
      Pages 95-123

  5. Ideology Collapsed

    1. Moscow: Capital of a decimated world power

      • J. Stadelbauer
      Pages 125-145

    2. St. Petersburg: Kiosks as mediators of the new market economy

      • A.G. Papadopoulos, K. Axenov
      Pages 147-173

    3. Johannesburg: Life after Apartheid

      • J. Bähr, U. Jürgens
      Pages 175-208

  8. Synopsis

    1. Global change and local reality

      • Rita Schneider-Sliwa
      Pages 321-329

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 331-339
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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

  • 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

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