| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 318 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Series |
Studies in urban and social change |
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Studies in urban and social change.
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| Contents |
Introduction / Peter Marcuse and Ronald van Kempen. -- The unavoidable continuities of the city / Robert A. Beauregard and Anne Haila. -- From the metropolis to globalization: the dialectics of race and urban form / William W. Goldsmith. -- From colonial city to globalizing city?: the far-from-complete spatial transformation of Calcutta / Sanjoy Chakravorty. -- Rio de Janeiro: emerging dualization in a historically unequal city / Luiz Cesar de Queiroz Ribeiro and Edward E. Telles. -- Singapore: the changing residential landscape in a winner city / Leo van Grunsven. -- Tokyo: patterns of familiarity and partitions of difference/ Paul Waley. -- Still a global city: the racial and ethnic segmentation of New York / John R. Logan. -- Brussels: post-fordist polarization in a fordist spatial canvas / Christian Kesteloot. -- The imprint of the post-fordist transition on Australian cities / Blair Badcock. -- The globalization of Frankfurt am Main: core, periphery and social conflict / Roger Keil and Klaus Ronneberger. -- Conclusion: a changed spatial order / Peter Marcuse and Ronald van Kempen |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 276-301) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Geografía humana. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n90700528
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| Subject |
Cities and towns.
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Human geography.
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Polarization (Social sciences)
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Spatial behavior.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Kempen, Ronald van.
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Marcuse, Peter.
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Wiley InterScience (Online service)
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| ISBN |
0470712635 (electronic bk.) |
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0470712880 |
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0631212906 (paperback; alk. paper) |
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9780470712634 (electronic bk.) |
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9780470712887 |
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9780631212904 (paperback; alk. paper) |
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(alk. paper) |
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(paperback; alk. paper) |
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