Research Catalog

Title

Urban world/global city / David Clark.

Author

Clark, David, 1946-

Publication

London ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2003.

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Details

Description

xix, 235 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

This text identifies and accounts for the characteristics of the contemporary city and of urban society. It analyses the distribution and growth of settlements and explores the social and behavioral characteristics of urban living.

Subjects

• Vie urbaine
• Urbanisation
• Sociologie urbaine
• Développement urbain
• Aspect socioéconomique
• Sociology, Urban
• Urbanization
• Cities and towns
• Internationalisatie
• Stadscultuur
• Urbanisatie
• Globalisierung
• Verstädterung
• Weltstadt
• urban sociology
• urbanization
• cities
• Cities

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-231) and index.

Contents

GLOBAL PATTERNS AND PERSPECTIVES: Studying the urban world -- A global economy -- A global society? -- Globalisation debates -- URBAN POPULATIONS AND PLACES: The contemporary urban world -- A world of towns and cities -- City size distributions and the global urban hierarchy -- Economic theories of urban formation -- Social theories of urban formation -- URBAN GROWTH AND URBANISATION HISTORICAL PATTERNS: Urban growth -- Urbanisation -- Stages of urban development -- Reasons for urban growth and urbanisation -- Stages of global urban development -- Urbanisation in a capitalist world economy -- URBAN DEVELOPMENT AS A GLOBAL PHENOMENON: The new global economic order -- Global finance -- Global services -- The new political geography -- The urbanisation of the developing world -- SOCI-ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF GLOBAL: The urban informal sector -- Shanty towns -- Service provision -- Health -- URBAN CULTURE AND GLOBAL SOCIETY: Culture and community in an aspatial world -- Global media services -- Urban imagery and values -- Global urban culture or cultures? -- WORLD CITIES: The hierarchy of world cities -- The growth and activities of the institutions of global capital -- The concentration of command and control -- Business information and decision-making -- Increasing global reach -- Representing and promoting places as world cities -- Tokyo as an example of a world city -- THE FUTURE URBAN WORLD: The urban future -- Issues of sustainability -- Urban sustainability -- Managing the urban future.

ISBN

• 0415320976
• 9780415320979
• 0415320984
• 9780415320986

LCCN

2003008580

OCLC

• ocm52086088
• 52086088
• SCSB-9411766

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library