Global Cities: Past, Present and Future
- ISBN-10
- 9353883008
- ISBN-13
- 9789353883003
- Series
- Global Cities
- Category
- Business & Economics
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2020-06-08
- Publisher
- SAGE Publishing India
- Author
- Zhenhua Zhou
Description
The pivotal nodes in the world city network are global cities---cities of supreme strategic value in global economy and politics, science and technology, culture, and society. Global Cities: Past, Present and Future explores the evolution of global cities---their formation, rise, development and tendencies. This book summarizes and interprets global tendencies and also puts forward a theoretical framework that will help researchers understand these cities better. It also makes a compelling case for understanding every city in terms of evolutionary dynamics. The first eight chapters of the book discuss the ontology of global city evolution and patterns, forms and trends of development. The last two chapters study the case of Shanghai, which aims to build itself into an important global city by 2050. This case study illustrates the shaping of a new type of global city that demonstrates new characteristics of the globalized space.
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