Globalizing Cities: A New Spatial Order?

This exciting collection of original essays provides students and professionals with an international and comparative examination of changes in global cities, revealing a growing pattern of social and spatial division or polarization. Content: Chapter 1 Introduction (pages 1–21): Peter Marcuse and Ronald van KempenChapter 2 The Unavoidable Continuities of the City (pages 22–36): Robert A. Beauregard and Anne HailaChapter 3 From the Metropolis to Globalization: The Dialectics of Race and Urban Form (pages 37–55): William W. GoldsmithChapter 4 From Colonial City to Globalizing City? The Far?from?Complete Spatial Transformation of Calcutta (pages 56–77): Sanjoy ChakravortyChapter 5 Rio de Janeiro: Emerging Dualization in a Historically Unequal City (pages 78–94): Luiz Cesar de Queiroz Ribeiro and Edward E. TellesChapter 6 Singapore: the Changing Residential Landscape in a Winner City (pages 95–126): Leo van GrunsvenChapter 7 Tokyo: Patterns of Familiarity and Partitions of Difference (pages 128–156): Paul WaleyChapter 8 Still a Global City: The Racial and Ethnic Segmentation of New York (pages 158–185): John R. LoganChapter 9 Brussels: Post?Fordist Polarization in a Fordist Spatial Canvas (pages 186–210): Christian KestelootChapter 10 The Imprint of the Post?Fordist Transition on Australian Cities (pages 211–227): Blair BadcockChapter 11 The Globalization of Frankfurt am Main: Core, Periphery and Social Conflict (pages 228–248): Roger Keil and Klaus RonnebergerChapter 12 Conclusion: A Changed Spatial Order (pages 249–275): Peter Marcuse and Ronald van Kempen