Of States and Cities by Peter Marcuse
The nature and effects of globalization are coming under critical scrutiny across all continents. This book focuses on one aspect, the globalization of cities. It examines the claim that the state is powerless to influence events, and that history, geography, and culture have become irrelevant in the worldwide trend towards a uniform urban model; a model which features increased segregation, decline of the central city, and social polarization. The international team of contributors is well placed to put these claims in perspective. Drawing on their experiences of cities as diverse as New York and Warsaw, Istanbul and Sao Paulo, they demonstrate that states and cities have adopted widely varying approaches to the advent of globalization; and that its impact has been constrained by each city's history, physical layout, location, environment, role in the international economy, and demographic composition. The diversity of urban development and political response revealed is enormous, and provides ample practical examples of what might be done to bring about improvements for the increasing number of people who live in cities.-
Decolonizing the Colonial City
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Cultivated Landscapes of Native North America
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The Dynamics of Regional Growth in Europe
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Cultivated Landscapes of Middle America on the Eve of Conquest
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Sustainable Livelihoods in Kalahari Environments
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Homelessness, AIDS, and Stigmatization
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Culture and the City in East Asia
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Indigenous Land Management in West Africa
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The Globalized City
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The Modalities of European Union Governance
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Putting Voters in their Place
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Social Power and the Urbanization of Water
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Infectious Diseases: A Geographical Analysis
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Pension Fund Capitalism
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Globalization and Integrated Area Development in European Cities
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Thailand at the Margins
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Manufacturing Culture
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Conflict, Consensus, and Rationality in Environmental Planning
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Russia's Unknown Agriculture
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The New Middle Class and the Remaking of the Central City
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Poliomyelitis
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The Nature of the State
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Worlds of Food
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A Critical Geography of Britain's State Forests
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Industrial Transformation in the Developing World
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Geopolitics and Empire
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An Uncooperative Commodity
There is much of value here both in some of the substantive detail and in the agenda of questions raised for further work* Development Policy Review *
There is much fascinating material here, careful, empirical, sober, and, insofar as it is possible, open-minded. * Development Policy Review *
Marcuse's history of the creation and successive transformations of the black ghetto in the US is particuarly good, as also is the account of the change from the communist to the post-communist era in Budapest and Polish cities. * Development Policy Review *
There is much fascinating material here, careful, empirical, sober, and, insofar as it is possible, open-minded. * Development Policy Review *
Marcuse's history of the creation and successive transformations of the black ghetto in the US is particuarly good, as also is the account of the change from the communist to the post-communist era in Budapest and Polish cities. * Development Policy Review *
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| ISBN 13 | 9780198297192 |
| ISBN 10 | 019829719X |
| Title | Of States and Cities |
| Author | Peter Marcuse |
| Series | Oxford Geographical And Environmental Studies Series |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 2002-05-02 |
| Number of pages | 312 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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