Urbanism, Colonialism, and the World-economy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Urbanism, Colonialism, and the World-economy write by Anthony D. King. This book was released on 2015. Urbanism, Colonialism, and the World-economy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Urbanism, Colonialism, and the World-Economy
Urbanism, Colonialism, and the World-Economy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Urbanism, Colonialism, and the World-Economy write by Anthony D King. This book was released on 2015-03-27. Urbanism, Colonialism, and the World-Economy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Recent years have witnessed a surge in public awareness concerning the impact of world economic forces on cities. In this challenging book, the author argues that though the consciousness is new the phenomena themselves are not. For the past two centuries at least, world economic, political and cultural forces have been major factors shaping cities, patterns of urbanization and the physical and spatial forms of the built environment. Anthony King believes that the historical context of contemporary global restructuring must be recognized if present-day urban and regional change is to be properly understood. He explores and documents the cultural and spatial links between metropolitan core and colonial periphery and examines the historical foundations of the world urban system. He also looks at the social production of building and urban form, and demonstrates their potential for understanding economic, political, socail and cultural change on a global scale.
Rethinking Global Urbanism
Rethinking Global Urbanism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rethinking Global Urbanism write by Xiangming Chen. This book was released on 2012. Rethinking Global Urbanism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Arguing that the focus in global urban studies on cities such as New York, London, Tokyo in the global North, Mexico City and Shanghai in the developing world, and other major nodes of the world economy, has skewed the concept of the global city toward economics, this volume gathers a diverse group of contributors to focus on smaller and less economically dominant cities. It highlights other important and relatively ignored themes such as cultural globalization, alternative geographies of the global, and the influence of deeper urban histories (particularly those relating to colonialism) in order to advance an alternative view of the global city.
Cities, Capital and Development
Cities, Capital and Development - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cities, Capital and Development write by David Simon. This book was released on 1992-11-17. Cities, Capital and Development available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Sheds new light on the social, cutural and politico-economic processes underlying the development of major African cities. Combines Africa's colonial legacy, the contrasts between poverty and wealth plus external influences of the global economy with a systematic assessment of national and urban means of production, access to and control over land and shelter along with formal and popular planning activities. Numerous examples and detailed case studies integrate various scales from global to intra-urban, placing them in an analytical framework that will be directly relevant to other Third World regions.
Writing the Global City
Writing the Global City - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Writing the Global City write by Anthony D King. This book was released on 2016-04-14. Writing the Global City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Over the last three decades, our understanding of the city worldwide has been revolutionized by three innovative theoretical concepts – globalisation, postcolonialism and a radically contested notion of modernity. The idea and even the reality of the city has been extended out of the state and nation and re-positioned in the larger global world. In this book Anthony King brings together key essays written over this period, much of it dominated by debates about the world or global city. Challenging assumptions and silences behind these debates, King provides largely ignored historical and cultural dimensions to the understanding of world city formation as well as decline. Interdisciplinary and comparative, the essays address new ways of framing contemporary themes: the imperial and colonial origin of contemporary world and global cities, actually existing postcolonialisms, claims about urban and cultural homogenisation and the role of architecture and built environment in that process. Also addressed are arguments about indigenous and exogenous perspectives, Eurocentricism, ways of framing vernacular architecture, and the global historical sociology of building types. Wide-ranging and accessible, Writing the Global City provides essential historical contexts and theoretical frameworks for understanding contemporary urban and architectural debates. Extensive bibliographies will make it essential for teaching, reference and research.
