Globalizing Cities A New Spatial Order [Paperback]

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.

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 RonlÓ_