The Globalizing Cities Reader

512 Pages·2017·24.514 MB·English

by  Xuefei Ren, Roger Keil

THE GLOBALIZING CITIES READER
The newly revised Globalizing Cities Reader reflects how the geographies of theory have recently shifted away
from the western vantage points from which much of the classic work in this field was developed.
The expanded volume continues to make available many of the original and foundational works that underpin
the research field, while expanding coverage to familiarize students with new theoretical and epistemological
positions as well as emerging research foci and horizons. It contains 38 new chapters, including key writings
on globalizing cities from leading thinkers such as John Friedmann, Michael Peter Smith, Saskia Sassen, Peter
Taylor, Manuel Castells, Anthony King, Jennifer Robinson, Ananya Roy, and Fulong Wu. The new Reader reflects
the fact that world and global city studies have evolved in exciting and wide-ranging ways, and the very notion
of a distinct “global” class of cities has recently been called into question. The sections examine the found-
ations of the field and processes of urban restructuring and global city formation. A large number of new entries
focus on the emerging urban worlds of Asia, Latin America, and Africa, including Beijing, Bogota, Cairo, Cape
Town, Delhi, Istanbul, Medellín, Mumbai, Phnom Penh, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, and Shanghai. The book also
presents cases off the conventional map of global cities research, such as smaller cities and lesser known urban
regions that are undergoing processes of globalization.
The book is a key resource for students and scholars alike who seek an accessible compendium of the
intellectual foundations of global urban studies as well as an overview of the emergent patterns of early
21st century urbanization and associated sociopolitical contestation around the world.
Xuefei Ren is Associate Professor of Sociology and Global Urban Studies at Michigan State University.
Roger Keil is York Research Chair in Global Sub/Urban Studies in the Faculty of Environmental Studies, York
University, Toronto.
THE ROUTLEDGE URBAN READER SERIES
Series editors
Richard T. LeGates
Professor Emeritus of Urban Studies and Planning, San Francisco State University.
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Lecturer in Urban Studies, Stanford University
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landscape architecture. They discuss the contributions of major theoreticians and practitioners and other
individuals, groups, and organizations that study the city or practice in a field that directly affects the city.
As well as drawing together the best of classic and contemporary writings on the city, each reader features
extensive introductions to the book, sections, and individual selections prepared by the volume editors to place
the selections in context, illustrate relations among topics, provide information on the author, and point readers
towards additional related bibliographic material.
Each reader contains:
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n An index.
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THE CITY READER
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global cities, cybercities, and city cultures.
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The City Reader, sixth edition
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URBAN DISCIPLINARY READERS TOPICAL URBAN READERS
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Nick Fyfe and Judith Kenny (eds) Malcolm Miles, Tim Hall with Iain Borden (eds)
The Urban Politics Reader The Cybercities Reader
Elizabeth Strom and John Mollenkopf (eds) Stephen Graham (ed.)
The Urban and Regional Planning Reader The Sustainable Urban Development Reader, third edition
Eugenie Birch (ed.) Stephen M. Wheeler and Timothy Beatley (eds)
The Urban Sociology Reader, second edition Cities of the Global South Reader
Jan Lin and Christopher Mele (eds) Faranak Miraftab and Neema Kudva (eds)
The Urban Design Reader, second edition The Globalizing Cities Reader
Michael Larice and Elizabeth Macdonald (eds) Xuefei Ren and Roger Keil (eds)
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The Globalizing Cities Reader
Second Edition
Edited by
Xuefei Ren
and
Roger Keil
Second edition published 2018
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A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Ren, Xuefei, editor. | Keil, Roger, 1957- editor.
Title: The globalizing cities reader / edited by Xuefei Ren and Roger Keil.
Other titles: Global cities reader.
Description: 2nd Edition. | New York : Routledge, [2018] |
Series: The Routledge urban reader series | Revised edition of The global cities reader,
2006. | Includes index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017020625 | ISBN 9781138923683 (hardback : alk. paper) |
ISBN 9781138923690 (pbk. : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781315684871 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Cities and towns. | Urbanization. | Globalization.
Classification: LCC HT119 .G64 2018 | DDC 307.76—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017020625
ISBN: 978-1-138-92368-3 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-138-92369-0 (pbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-68487-1 (ebk)
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For John Friedmann (1926–2017)

Contents
List of plates xv
List of contributors xvii
Acknowledgments xxi
Editors’ introduction: from Global to Globalizing Cities xxiii
PART 1 FOUNDATIONS 1
Introduction to Part One 3
1 Prologue: “The metropolitan explosion” 7
Peter Hall
2 “Divisions of space and time in Europe” 9
Fernand Braudel
3 “World city formation: an agenda for research and action” 16
John Friedmann and Goetz Wolff
4 “Locating cities on global circuits” 25
Saskia Sassen
5 “Urban specialization in the world system: an investigation of historical cases” 31
Nestor P. Rodriguez and Joe R. Feagin
6 “Accumulation and comparative urban systems” 41
John Walton
7 “The world-system perspective and urbanization” 47
Michael Timberlake
8 “Global city formation in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles:
an historical perspective” 53
Janet L. Abu-Lughod
9 “Global and world cities: a view from off the map” 60
Jennifer Robinson
10 “Space in the globalizing city” 67
Peter Marcuse