| Description |
1 online resource (321 pages) |
| Contents |
Globalization, Modernity, and the City; Copyright; Contents; List of case studies; List of figures; List of tables; Preface; PART 1 Global generalities; 1 The Third Urban Revolution; 2 The Late Modern Wave of Globalization; 3 Metropolitan modernities; PART 2 Thematic specificities; 4 Urban spectaculars: World's Fairs and Summer Olympics; 5 Flânerie and the globalizing city; 6 Traffic, accidents and the modern city; 7 Modernity and urban utopias: the early Bauhaus; 8 Big city; PART 3 City particularities; 9 Alice Springs/Mparntwe: the postcolonial creative city |
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10 Shanghai: the reglobalizing city11 Megalopolis: the liquid city; PART 4 Urban utopias; 12 Postscript; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
Globalization, Modernity and The City weaves together broad social themes with detailed urban analysis to explore the connections between the rise of big cities, the creation of a global network and the making of the modern world. It explains the growth of big cities, the urban bias of global flows and the creation of metropolitan modernities. The text develops broad theories of the subtle and complex interactions between urbanization, globalization and modernization in a sweep of the urban experience across the modern world. Thematic chapters explore the making of the modern city |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Urbanization -- Case studies
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Globalization -- Case studies
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Globalization.
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Urbanization.
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780203808863 |
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020380886X |
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