| The Other Global City Contributor(s): Mayaram, Shail (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0415882362 ISBN-13: 9780415882361 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $52.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - Urban - Non-classifiable - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - General |
| Dewey: 307.760 |
| Series: Routledge Advances in Geography |
| Physical Information: 0.55" H x 6" W x 9" (0.78 lbs) 244 pages |
| Themes: - Demographic Orientation - Urban |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: What is a Global City? Who authorizes the World Class City? This edited volume interrogates the global cities literature, which views the city as a shimmering, financial global network. Through a historical-ethnographic exploration of inter-ethnic relations in the other global cities of Cairo, Beirut, Istanbul, Bukhara, Lhasa, Delhi, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and Tokyo, the well-known contributors highlight cartographies of the Other Global City. The volume contends that thinking about the city in the longue duree and as part of a topography of interconnected regions contests both imperial and nationalist ways of reading cities that have occasioned the many and particularly violent territorial partitions in Asia and the world. |