Full Description
New Global Cities in Latin America and Asia: Welcome to the Twenty-First Century proposes new visions of global cities and regions historically considered "secondary" in the international context. The arguments are not only based on material progress made by these metropolises, but also on the growing social difficulties experienced (e.g., organized crime, drug trafficking, slums, economic inequalities). The book illustrates the growth of cities according to these problems arising from the modernity of the new century, comparing Latin American and Asian cities.
This book analyzes the complex relationships within cities through an interdisciplinary approach, complementing other research and challenging orthodox views on global cities. At the same time, the book provides new theoretical and methodological tools to understand the progress of "Third World" cities and the way of understanding "globality" in the 21st century by confronting the traditional views with which global cities were appreciated since the 1980s. Pablo Baisotti brings together researchers from various fields who provide new interpretative keys to certain cities in Latin America and Asia.
Contents
Introduction by the editor
PART I ASIA: CENTRE OF GROWTH AND GLOBALITY
Chapter 1
Chinese Cities from the Ground to the Sky: Building Suzhou as a Global City beyond the Tradition
Raffaele Pernice
Chapter 2
The Urban Geographies of a Small Island: A Dialectical Spatial Approach
Gang Hong
Chapter 3
The rise of Chongqing and Queretaro: the territorial dimension of the divergent trajectories of two emerging urban economies in China and Mexico
Miguel Hidalgo Martinez
Chapter 4
Migration, expatriation, and heterosexuality in a globalized city - Singapore
Liangni Sally Liu
Chapter 5
City-regions reconsidered
Allen J. Scott
PART II LATIN AMERICA: OPENING, GLOBALIZATION AND CRISIS
Chapter 6
Global Cities in Peripheral Countries: Argentina in the New International Labor Division
Ulises Girolimo, and Patricio Feldman
Chapter 7
Regional Planning, Development, and Governance of Metropolitan Secondary City Clusters: Case Study of Santiago and Central Chile Region
Brian Roberts, José Tomás Videla, and Marcela Allué Nualart
Chapter 8
Change of the society consumption in Peru during the globalization process
Nadia Nora Urriola Canchari
Chapter 9
Urban Conflict and Transnational Crime in Latin American Cities
John P. Sullivan
Chapter 10
The emergence of a global urban region: The Urban Corridor automotive and aeronautical in the Central - Bajío Region, Mexico
Adrián Moreno Mata
Chapter 11
Economy, Inequalities and Cities. Chinese influence in Latin America
Pablo Baisotti
Conclusion
Contributors
