Global City Challenges: Debating a Concept, Improving the Practice

291 Pages·2013·1.844 MB·English

by  Michele Acuto, Wendy Steele

The Palgrave Macmillan
Global City Challenges
Debating a Concept, Improving the Practice
Michele Acuto
Wendy Steele
Global City Challenges
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Global City Challenges
Debating a Concept, Improving the Practice
Michele Acuto
SeniorLecturer,UniversityCollegeLondon,UK
Wendy Steele
ARCFellow,GriffithUniversity,Australia
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Contents
ListofFiguresandTables vii
NotesonContributors viii
1 Introduction 1
MicheleAcutoandWendySteele
2 TheGlobalCityTradition 15
ChristofParnreiter
3 TheNetworkDimension 33
BenDerudder,MichaelHoylerandPeterJ.Taylor
4 TheEconomicandFinancialDimensions 47
DavidBassens
5 TheHistoricalDimension 63
PeterRimmerandHowardDick
6 ThePostcolonialDimension 88
VanessaWatson
7 TheLiteraryDimension 101
SheilaHones
8 TheVirtualDimension 117
MarkGraham
9 TheCulturalDimension 140
OliMould
10 TheArchitecturalDimension 155
KerwinDatu
11 TheGeopoliticalDimension 170
MicheleAcuto
12 TheSecurityDimension 188
DavidMurakami-Wood
13 GlobalCityChallenges:AViewfromtheField 202
GlenSearle
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vi Contents
Conclusions 222
MicheleAcutoandWendySteele
GlobalCityChallenges:ASympatheticPostscript 232
RogerKeil
Bibliography 237
Index 260
Figures and Tables
Figures
4.1 EvolutionofDubai’sforeign-ownedpropertypricesas
percentageof2007’sfirstquarter 55
5.1 SilkRoad:AhistoricalnetworkofEast–Westroutesacross
Afro-Eurasia 68
5.2 Shanghaiinthe1930s 77
5.3 Shanghaiin2012 82
5.4 Schematicrepresentationoftime-spacecompressionsincethe
mid-nineteenthcentury 84
5.5 Theglobalcitymall 86
8.1 Thematerial/digitalpalimpsestsofManhattan 118
8.2 EditstoWikipediaintheMiddleEastandNorthAfrica 123
8.3 Referencesto‘temple’inEnglish(left)andThai(right)
inBangkok 128
8.4 InsetmapintheJerusalemWikipediaarticleinJuly2008 134
8.5 InsetmapintheJerusalemWikipediaarticleinJuly2009 135
8.6 InsetmapintheJerusalemWikipediaarticlein2011 136
8.7 InsetmapintheJerusalemWikipediaarticlein2012 136
9.1 DRByen,Ørestad,Copenhagen 150
9.2 Parkourplugandplay‘park’,Ørestad,Copenhagen 151
Tables
3.1 City-by-firmmatrixandsummedservicevalues 37
3.2 Dyadconnectivityandglobalnetworkconnectivity 37
3.3 LargestvaluesofCDCa−iandGNCaforChinesecitiesin2010 41
3.4 GNC,globalismandlocalismofthe20mostconnected
ChinesecitiesintheWCNin2010 41
3.5 Thefivemostimportantrelativeconnectionsofsix
Chinesecities 42
4.1 ForeigndirectinvestmentstocksintheEmirateofDubaifor
2006and2010 57
5.1 Worldcities 66
5.2 Shanghai’spopulationatselecteddates,1860–2010 78
12.1 UPPsinRiodeJaneiro,December2012 195
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Contributors
MicheleAcutoisSeniorLecturerintheDepartmentofScience,Technology,
EngineeringandPublicPolicy(STEaPP),UniversityCollegeLondon,UK,and
Stephen Barter Fellow of the Oxford Programme for the Future of Cities at
theUniversityofOxford,UK.HeistheeditorofNegotiatingRelief (2013)and
authorofTheUrbanLink(2013).
David Bassens is Assistant Professor at the Free University of Brussels,
Belgium (Cosmopolis research group) and has been a researcher at the
Social and Economic Geography research group at Ghent University, Bel-
gium,sinceOctober2007.Since2008,hehasbeenemployedonafour-year
FWO-project entitled Globalization Revisited: The Relationship between Global
CommodityChainsandUrbanNetworks.Davidfocuseson‘alternative’world
city networks and newly arising lines of research on urbanization and
globalization in non-core regions of the world economy and Gulf cities
in particular. Since 2008, he has been a member of the editorial board
of AGORA Magazine, a Dutch–Belgian journal on socio-spatial issues and
a research fellow of the Globalization and World Cities (GaWC) Research
Network.
Kerwin Datu is a PhD Researcher in the Department of Geography and
the Environment, London School of Economics (LSE), UK, and the editor-
in-chief of The Global Urbanist – an online magazine analysing urban
development issues worldwide. Originally trained in architecture, a field in
whichheworkedinSydney,ParisandLondonovernineyears,hecompleted
anMScinUrbanisationandDevelopmentattheLSEin2009,whichinspired
the magazine. He is now completing a PhD in Economic Geography at the
LSE, focused on the role of global and regional city networks in economic
development.
Ben Derudder is Professor of Human Geography in the Department of
Geography,GhentUniversity,Belgium,andAssociateDirectoroftheGaWC
ResearchNetwork.HeisalsoaMarieCurieFellowintheSchoolofGeogra-
phyandEnvironmentalScience,MonashUniversity,Australia.Hisresearch
focuses on the conceptualization and empirical analysis of transnational
urbannetworks.Hehaspublishedinkeygeographyandurbanstudiesjour-
nals and written and co-edited books on world city network formation,
includingCitiesinGlobalization(2007),GlobalUrbanAnalysis(2011)andthe
InternationalHandbookofGlobalizationandWorldCities(2012).
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NotesonContributors ix
Howard Dick is Professorial Fellow in the Department of Management &
Marketing, Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Melbourne,
Australia,wherehehastaughtsince1998.Hewaspreviouslyseniorlecturer
in Asian Economic History, in the Department of Business Development &
Corporate History (formerly Economic History), University of Melbourne,
Australia, and senior lecturer in the Department of Economics, Univer-
sity of Newcastle, Australia, between 1976 and 1998, after completing his
PhD in the Research School of Pacific Studies of the Australian National
University. He is the author of Surabaya, City of Work (2002) and has
written several articles, chapters and books in collaboration with Peter
Rimmer.
Mark Graham is Research Fellow in the University of Oxford’s Internet
Institute, where he focuses on Internet and information geographies, and
theoverlapsbetweenICTsandeconomicdevelopment.Mark’sworkonthe
geographies of theInternet examines howpeople and places are ever more
defined by, and made visible through, not only their traditional physical
locationsandproperties,butalsotheirvirtualattributesanddigitalshadows.
He is currently involved in a multi-year project funded by an ESRC-DFID
granttostudytheeffectsofbroadbanduseandaccessinKenyaandRwanda,
askingwhobenefits(andwhodoesn’t)fromimprovedconnectivity.Mark’s
previous work in this area focused on similar questions within the con-
text of the Thai silk industry. He has also recently set up a commodity
chaintracingproject(Wikichains.org)thatwillallowpeopletoharnessthe
powerofuser-generatedcontenttouncoverthehiddenproductionpractices,
environmentaleffectsandeconomicgeographiesbehindeverydayitems.
Sheila Hones is Professor in the Department of Area Studies, Graduate
SchoolofArtsandSciences,UniversityofTokyo,Japan.SheholdsaBA(Uni-
versity of Manchester, UK) in English/American Literature, an MA (Clark
University,USA)inAmericanliteratureandaPhD(BostonUniversity,USA)
in interdisciplinary American studies. Within American studies, her main
researchinterestshavetodowiththeintegrationofliterarystudiesandcul-
tural geography. Recent publications include articles in American Quarterly,
ACME, Comparative American Studies, Cultural Geographies, Environment and
Planning:A,GeographyCompass,andSocialandCulturalGeography.
Michael Hoyler is Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at Loughborough
University, UK, and Associate Director of the GaWC Research Network.
His research interests are in urban, economic and social geography with a
focusonthetransformationofEuropeancitiesandmetropolitanregionsin
contemporary globalization. He has published widely in the field of urban
studies.Recentco-editedbooksincludeGlobalUrbanAnalysis(2011)andthe
InternationalHandbookofGlobalizationandWorldCities(2012).