Planning World Cities: Globalization and Urban Politics

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This major comparative text on urban planning, and the global and regional context in which it takes place, examines what have been traditionally regarded as 'world cities' (New York, London, Tokyo) and also a range of other important cities in America, Europe and Asia. The authors show the role planning has played in the way cities have responded to the forces of globalization, and argue for the importance of diverse - rather than one-size-fits-all - planning practices.

This fully revised second edition systematically brings the debates on the impact of globalization right up to date and provides integrated coverage of the latest planning theory and practice. It also contains extended analysis of the implications of the rapid growth of Chinese cities such as Shanghai, Hong Kong and Beijing. New material is included on the impact of globalization on poorer mega-cities like Mumbai and Johannesburg.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• List of Maps (p. viii)
• Acknowledgements (p. ix)
• Preface to the Second Edition (p. xii)
• 1 Introduction (p. 1)
• The core global regions (p. 3)
• The spatial dimensions of governance (p. 6)
• The strategic urban planning agenda (p. 9)
• The structure of the book (p. 11)
• Conceptual Framework
• 2 Global Transformation (p. 14)
• The globalization debate (p. 14)
• Global governance? (p. 22)
• Global civil society (p. 25)
• New sub-global regionalism (p. 27)
• 3 The World City Debate (p. 31)
• The development of the world city hypothesis (p. 32)
• Challenges to the world city hypothesis (p. 34)
• Global economic functions and issues of space (p. 36)
• The social impact of globalization on cities (p. 38)
• History and convergence (p. 40)
• 4 Planning and Governance: Nation States, City Regions and Urban Politics (p. 45)
• National contexts (p. 45)
• World city regions? (p. 49)
• Politics and governance in cities (p. 50)
• Key planning issues for world cities (p. 56)
• 5 Globalizing Cities Outside the Core Global Regions (p. 60)
• Ordinary cities' or can there be a world city in the South? (p. 61)
• Johannesburg (p. 62)
• Mumbai (p. 65)
• Dubai and Abu Dhabi (p. 69)
• Sydney (p. 72)
• North America
• 6 Cities in the North America Region (p. 75)
• The changing system of cities (p. 76)
• The revival of central cities (p. 78)
• City suburbs and mega-regions (p. 80)
• Higher level governance (p. 83)
• 7 New York: Capital of the World (p. 88)
• The governance of planning and development (p. 90)
• Building and rebuilding the capital of the world (p. 95)
• Conclusions (p. 105)
• 8 The Challenge to New York's World City Dominance: Toronto, Mexico City, Chicago or Los Angeles? (p. 107)
• Toronto: 'the most multicultural city in the world' (p. 108)
• Mexico City: The mega city (p. 113)
• Chicago: The 'plan for urban greatness' (p. 117)
• Los Angeles: The 'prototype' world city (p. 121)
• Europe
• 9 European Integration and Competitive City Regions (p. 127)
• European cities: History, competition and a new urban hierarchy (p. 128)
• European cities: The framework of governance (p. 134)
• 10 London: From Fragmentation to World City Promotion (p. 144)
• Developing London as the World City (p. 144)
• Setting priorities for the new government of London from 2000 (p. 148)
• A new kind of plan for the competitive era (p. 153)
• Political and economic change from 2008 (p. 158)
• The city region (p. 161)
• Conclusions (p. 163)
• 11 Europe's World City Contenders: Paris, Berlin, Barcelona...Istanbul? (p. 166)
• Paris: The petit quatrième (p. 167)
• Berlin: An 'alternative' world city (p. 175)
• Baroelona: Transformation through 'events' (p. 179)
• Istanbul: Mega city meets world city (p. 183)
• Pacific Asia
• 12 Pacific Asia: Strong State Leadership and Rapid Urban Transformation (p. 187)
• Regional economic volatility (p. 189)
• Developmental state (p. 191)
• China enters the world stage (p. 193)
• The transformation of cities (p. 197)
• City governance and urban planning (p. 202)
• 13 Tokyo: Shaping a World City in the Face of Economic Turbulence (p. 207)
• Tokyo: World city? (p. 208)
• Strategic planning in the boom years of the 1980s (p. 212)
• Crisis and re-globalization: Shifting attitudes about Tokyo's world city role (p. 218)
• The emergence of a new national direction (p. 220)
• The response of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government (p. 222)
• Conclusions (p. 228)
• 14 Regional Competition for World City Status - Mega Projects and State-Led Visions in Singapore, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Beijing (p. 232)
• Singapore: City-state and archetypal world city (p. 235)
• Hong Kong: A 'gateway' under threat? (p. 243)
• Shanghai: A state-led world city (p. 251)
• Beijing: The creation of an 'international city' (p. 261)
• Conclusions
• 15 Planning World Cities (p. 269)
• Economic globalization, state restructuring and urban governance within the three global regions (p. 272)
• Global imperative or regional difference? (p. 280)
• The planning of world cities over the last thirty years: Convergence or diversity? (p. 284)
• Creative planning in a complex world (p. 289)
• Bibliography (p. 293)
• Index (p. 329)