Global Cities/Local Sites

Abu-Lughod 1999

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Abu-Lughod, Janet, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles: America's Global Cities, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1999.

Acknowledgement

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The editors and authors wish to acknowledge the expertise and support of colleagues at Melbourne University Press's electronic publishing division: Eugenie Baulch, Rini Ismail and Margaret Trudgeon.

This series of e-books is, itself, an innovative joint-venture between Melbourne University Press and Universitas 21 (U21), an international network of research-intensive universities. The editors and authors wish to acknowledge the support of U21 and their individual universities. Jane Usherwood, Secretary-General of U21, has been particularly supportive in the development of this first volume in a series of e-books on international themes.

Anderson 1983

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Anderson, Benedict, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, Verso, New York, 1983.

Appadurai 1996

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Appadurai, Arjun, Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1996.

Castells 1989

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Castells, Manuel, The Informational City: Economic Restructuring and Urban Development, Blackwell, Oxford, 1989.

Cox 1997

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Cox, Kevin (ed.), Spaces of Globalization: Reasserting the Power of the Local, Guilford Press, New York, 1997.

Cvetkovich and Kellner 1997

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Cvetkovich, Ann and Kellner, Douglas (eds), Articulating the Global and the Local: Globalization and Cultural Studies, Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado, 1997.

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Eade 1996

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Eade, John (ed.), Living the Global City: Globalization as Local Process, Routledge, London, 1996.

Hannerz 1996

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Hannerz, Ulf, Transnational Connections: Culture, People, Places, Routledge, London, 1996.

Harvey 1985

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Harvey, David, The Urbanization of Capital, Blackwell, Oxford, 1985.

Jameson and Miyoshi 1998

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Jameson, Fredric and Miyoshi, Masao (eds), The Cultures of Globalization, Duke University Press, Durham, North Carolina, 1998.

Key studies

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Abu-Lughod, Janet, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles: America's Global Cities, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1999.

Anderson, Benedict, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, Verso, New York, 1983.

Appadurai, Arjun, Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1996.

Castells, Manuel, The Informational City: Economic Restructuring and Urban Development, Blackwell, Oxford, 1989.

Cox, Kevin R. (ed.), Spaces of Globalization: Reasserting the Power of the Local, Guilford Press, New York, 1997.

Cvetkovich, Ann and Kellner, Douglas (eds), Articulating the Global and the Local: Globalization and Cultural Studies, Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado, 1997.

Eade, John (ed.), Living the Global City: Globalization as Local Process, Routledge, London, 1996.

Hannerz, Ulf, Transnational Connections: Culture, People, Places, Routledge, London, 1996.

Harvey, David, The Urbanization of Capital, Blackwell, Oxford, 1985.

Jacobs, Jane, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Random House, New York, 1961.

Jameson, Fredric and Miyoshi, Masao (eds), The Cultures of Globalization, Duke University Press, Durham, North Carolina, 1998.

King, Anthony D., Urbanism, Colonialism, and the World Economy: Cultural and Spatial Foundations of the World Urban System, Routledge, New York, 1990.

Lynch, Kevin, The Image of the City, MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1960.

Marcuse, Peter and van Kempen, Ronald, Globalizing Cities: A New Spatial Order, Blackwell, Oxford, 2000.

Relph, Edward, Place and Placelessness, Pion, London, 1976.

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Sassen, Saskia, The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo, Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 1991.

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Short, John Rennie and Kim, Yeong-Hyun, Globalization and the City, Prentice-Hall, New Jersey, 1999.

Wilson, Rob and Dissanayake, Wimal (eds), Global/local: Cultural Production and the Transnational Imaginary, Duke University Press, Durham, North Carolina, 1996.

King 1990

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King, Anthony D., Urbanism, Colonialism, and the World Economy: Cultural and Spatial Foundations of the World Urban System, Routledge, New York, 1990.

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Marcuse and van Kempen 2000

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Marcuse, Peter and van Kempen, Ronald, Globalizing Cities: A New Spatial Order, Blackwell, Oxford, 2000.

McGee 1991

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McGee, Terrence G., 'The Emergence of Desakota Regions in Asia', in Norton Ginsberg, Bruce Koppel and Terrence G. McGee (eds), The Extended Metropolis: Settlement Transition in Asia, University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, 1991, pp. 3–25.

Relph 1976

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Relph, Edward, Place and Placelessness, Pion, London, 1976.

Sassen 1991

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Sassen, Saskia, The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo, Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 1991.

Short and Kim 1999

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Short, John Rennie and Kim, Yeong-Hyun, Globalization and the City, Prentice-Hall, New Jersey, 1999.

Wilson and Dissanayake 1996

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Wilson, Rob and Dissanayake, Wimal (eds), Global/local: Cultural Production and the Transnational Imaginary, Duke University Press, Durham, North Carolina, 1996.

Introduction - Global Cities/Local Sites

The essays in this collection selectively examine the material, imaginative and historical configurations of urban locations across four continents. Using a case-study approach, each essay opens up an understanding of how global and local forces intersect in the production of the spaces—or occasionally, non-spatial locations—of urban life. The extent to which spaces become places and then, in a sometimes unpredictable narrative, revert to the more anonymised spaces of global cities is a concern that runs through the collection as a whole.

There are no easy formulations for explaining the impact of global flows of capital, cultural capital and people on cities. In some instances local developments and practices are the stimulant for 'going global' rather than the site of resistance. Similarly, historical rootedness can reinvigorate the local sphere or be the source of 'heritage'. It is important, then, not to slip unwarily into assumptions that local and global respectively...

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