Global City-Regions ' Trends, Theory, Policy '

Book Overview

There are now more than three hundred city-regions around the world with populations of more than one million. As globalization intensifies, these city-regions come to pose many new questions and problems. This book presents a highly original and multifaceted review of these issues by some of the leading researchers in the field. It seeks at once to define the question of global city-regions and to describe the internal and external dynamics that shape them; it proposes a theorization of global city-regions based on their economic and political responses to intensifying levels of globalization; and it offers a number of policy insights into the severe social problems that confront global city-regions as they come face to face with an economically and politically neoliberal world.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198297998
• ISBN13: 9780198297994
• Release Date: March 2001
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 484 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.6"