Global cities and urban theory / Donald McNeill.
Material type: TextPublisher: Los Angeles : SAGE, c2017Description: x, 182 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmISBN: 9781446267073 (paperback)Subject(s): Cities and towns | Globalization -- Political aspects | Globalization -- Economic aspects | Urbanization -- Political aspects | Urbanization -- Economic aspects | Cities and towns | Globalization -- Economic aspects | Globalization -- Political aspects | Urbanization -- Economic aspects | Urbanization -- Political aspectsLOC classification: HT151 | .M36 2017Item type | Home library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode |
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Books | MMSU Main Library | HT151.M36 2017 CIRC (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 18-0541 | Available | For Circulation | 34892 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-177) and index.
Machine generated contents note: Bright lights, global cities -- Cultural and political economies -- Material turns -- The organization of the book -- 1. Centrality -- Caput Mundi: capital of the world -- The `original globalizer'? Cities and territorialized religion -- The cathedral and the global city -- Theological centrality -- Popemobile: universality and visibility -- Creative globalization? Pilgrimage practices -- The Bible and the global South -- 2. Flat Cities -- Actor-networks and political economies -- A Paris journey; or, the problem of the `zoom' -- How big is the city? -- World's Fairs -- Centre of calculation -- The objects that hold Paris together -- Small Paris: recomposition -- A rumour of cities -- 3. Global Urban Order(Ing) -- Metageographies -- Global rankings -- The `ordinary city' debates -- Ontologies of big cities -- Standard cities -- Global standards I: hotels -- Global standards II: air conditioning -- 4. Logistical Territories -- Circumferential and surface geographies -- Logistical territories -- Port ontologies -- A ship-centric ontology of the urban? -- Airport territories -- The production of Hong Kong International Airport -- 5. Centres of Calculation -- CBD: the central business district as a `centre of calculation' -- Office geographies -- Bodies and work -- Saskia Sassen's financial centres -- Metrologies of centrality: critical accounting -- Calculable city space -- Global cities and the `super-rich' -- Moral geographies -- Forensic urban geography -- 6. World-Making -- Models, experts and consultants -- Actualization -- The selling of the Silicon Valley model -- Management consultancy as worlding practice -- Co-presence and business travel -- Gurus and urbanologists -- San Francisco and the global expansion of Uber -- Testbeds and experimentation -- Urban laboratories: New Songdo and Masdar City -- CONCLUSIONS -- Distance and panorama -- Global cities are miscellaneous concentrations of firms -- Calculated territories -- Power and cities -- Ethnographic sensitivities.
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