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Author:   Allen J. Scott (, Department of Policy Studies and Department of Geography, University of California, Los Angeles)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.724kg
ISBN:  

9780199252305

ISBN 10:   0199252300
Pages:   484
Publication Date:   07 March 2002
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Allen J. Scott: Introduction Part I: Opening Arguments 1: Allen J. Scott, John Agnew, Edward W. Soja, and Michael Storper: Global City-Regions Part II: On Practical Questions of Globalization and City-Region Development 2: Kenichi Ohmae: How to Invite Prosperity from the Global Economy into a Region 3: James D. Wolfensohn: The World Bank and Global City-Regions: Reaching the Poor 4: Lucien Bouchard: Quebec in an Era of Global City-Regions Part III: The Global City-Region: A New Geographic Phenomenon? 5: Sir Peter Hall: Global City-Regions in the Twenty-First Century 6: Saskia Sassen: Global Cities and Global City-Regions: A Comparison 7: Roberto Camagni: The Economic Role and Spatial Contradictions of Global City-Regions: The Functional, Cognitive, and Evolutionary Context 8: John Friedmann: Intercity Networks in a Globalizing Era Part IV: The Competitive Advantages of Global City-Regions 9: Michael E. Porter: Regions and the New Economics of Competition 10: Thomas J. Courchene: Ontario as a North American Region-State, Toronto as a Global City-Region: Responding to the NAFTA Challenge Part V: Global City-Regions in Africa, Asia, and Latin America: Political and Economic Challenges 11: Richard Stren: Local Governance and Social Diversity in the Developing World: New Challenges for Globalizing City-Regions 12: Tim Campbell: Innovation and Risk-Taking: Urban Governance in Latin America 13: Michael Douglass: Intercity Competition and the Question of Economic Resilience: Globalization and Crisis in Asia 14: Won Bae Kim: Repositioning of City-Regions: Korea after the Crisis Part VI: Social Inequalities and Immigrant Niches in Global City-Regions 15: Susan S. Fainstein: Inequality in Global City-Regions 16: Roger Waldinger: The Immigrant Niche in Global City-Regions: Concept, Patterns, Controversy Part VII: Questions of Citizenship 17: James Holston: Urban Citizenship and Globalization 18: Engin F. Isin: Istanbul's Conflicting Paths to Citizenship: Islamization and Globalization Part VIII: The New Collective Order of Global City-Regions 19: Michael Keating: Governing Cities and Regions: Territorial Restructuring in a Global Age 20: Douglas Henton: Lessons from Silicon Valley: Governance in a Global City-Region 21: Hubert Schmitz: Local Governance and Conflict Management: Reflections on a Brazilian Cluster Part IX: Coda: Environmental Issues 22: Theodore Panayotou: Environmental Sustainability and Services in Developing Global City-Regions

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... some must-read pieces ... this important book brings the concept of the global city-region into view. At the same time, it sows seeds of doubt about the concept's usefulness and applicability. Area A good-quality production with many eminent contributors ... will be of interest to urban scholars. Urban Studies

... some must-read pieces ... this important book brings the concept of the global city-region into view. At the same time, it sows seeds of doubt about the concept's usefulness and applicability. Area A good-quality production with many eminent contributors ... will be of interest to urban scholars. Urban Studies

Author Information

Allen J. Scott is Professor in both the Department of Policy Studies and the Department of 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 Andre 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).

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