Description
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.
Table of Contents
List of Figures vii
List of Maps viii
List of Tables x
List of Contributors xii
Series Editors' Preface xv
Preface xvii
1 Introduction 1
Peter Marcuse and Ronald van Kempen
2 The Unavoidable Continuities of the City 22
Robert A. Beauregard and Anne Haila
3 From the Metropolis to Globalization: The Dialectics of Race and Urban Form 37
William W. Goldsmith
4 From Colonial City to Globalizing City? The Far-fromcomplete Spatial Transformation of Calcutta 56
Sanjoy Chakravorty
5 Rio de Janeiro: Emerging Dualization in a Historically Unequal City 78
Luiz Cesar de Queiroz Ribeiro and Edward E. Telles
6 Singapore: the Changing Residential Landscape in a Winner City 95
Leo van Grunsven
7 Tokyo: Patterns of Familiarity and Partitions of Difference 127
Paul Waley
8 Still a Global City: The Racial and Ethnic Segmentation of New York 158
John R. Logan
9 Brussels: Post-Fordist Polarization in a Fordist Spatial Canvas 186
Christian Kesteloot
10 The Imprint of the Post-Fordist Transition on Australian Cities 211
Blair Badcock
11 The Globalization of Frankfurt am Main: Core, Periphery and Social Conflict 228
Roger Keil and Klaus Ronneberger
12 Conclusion: A Changed Spatial Order 249
Peter Marcuse and Ronald van Kempen
List of References 276
Index 302
