Global Port Cities in North America: Urbanization Processes and Global Production Networks
Author:   Boris Vormann (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Volume:   13
ISBN:  

9781138814028


Pages:   248
Publication Date:   16 December 2014
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Boris Vormann (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Volume:   13
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.498kg
ISBN:  

9781138814028


ISBN 10:   1138814024
Pages:   248
Publication Date:   16 December 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Part I: Introduction: Global Cities in Global Production Networks 1. Globalization’s Hidden Anchors 2. Blind Spots of Globalization Part II: Discourses of Urban Progress: Creating a Postindustrial Utopia 3. The Logistics Revolution and the End of Fordism 4. The Redundancy of Fordist Infrastructures 5. Imagining a Post-industrial Future Part III: Frictionless Supply Chains: Utopia’s Negative Externalities 6. How Social and Ecological Costs Have Been Externalized 7. Who Pays?: A Geography of Costs 8. Secure Flows, Optimized Networks Part IV: Conclusions: State Legitimacy and the Public Good 9. Infrastructures and Spectacles of the Global 10. Arguments of False Necessity: Discontinuities and Potential Futures

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Boris Vormann is a lecturer in political science at Freie Universität’s John-F.-Kennedy Institute and associated researcher at the Université du Québec à Montréal.

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