Globalization and Urban Development [Paperback]

Most research on globalization has focused on macroeconomic and economy-wide consequences. This book explores an under-researched area, the impacts of globalization on cities and national urban hierarchies, especially but not solely in developing countries. Most of the globalization-urban research has concentrated on the global cities (e.g. New York, London, Paris, Tokyo) that influence what happens in the rest of the world. In contrast, this research looks at the cities at the receiving end of the forces of globalization. The general finding is that large cities, on balance, benefit from globalization, although in some cases at the expense of widening spatial inequities.

Most research on globalization has focused on macroeconomic and economy-wide consequences. This book explores an under-researched area, the impacts of globalization on cities and national urban hierarchies, especially but not solely in developing countries. Most of the globalization-urban research has concentrated on the global cities (e.g. New York, London, Paris, Tokyo) that influence what happens in the rest of the world. In contrast, this research looks at the cities at the receiving end of the forces of globalization. The general finding is that large cities, on balance, benefit from globalization, although in some cases at the expense of widening spatial inequities.

Globalization in General.- Globalization, spatial allocation of resources and spatial impacts: A conceptual framework.- Urban development in the global periphery: The consequences of economic and ideological globalization.- The Urban Hierarchy.- Impact of globalization on cities and city-related policies in India.- The impacts of globalization on the urban spatial-economic system in Korea.- Trade openness and regional development in a developing country.- Do the donors have it right? Decentralization and changing local governance in Indonesia.- South Africa in the global context: The view frl"