Making Cities Global : : The Transnational Turn in Urban History / / ed. by A. K. Sandoval-Strausz, Nancy H. Kwak.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
• MitwirkendeR: Allen-Kim, Erica,; Benmergui, Leandro,; Garcia, Matt,; Harris, Richard,; Hein, Carola,; Kwak, Nancy H.,; Nightingale, Carl H.,; Offner, Amy C.,; O’Mara, Margaret,; Rao, Nikhil,; Sandoval-Strausz, A. K.,; Sen, Arijit,; Sugrue, Thomas J.,
• HerausgeberIn: Kwak, Nancy H.,; Sandoval-Strausz, A. K.,
• TeilnehmendeR: Sugrue, Thomas J.
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2017]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (352 p.) :; 39 illus.

In recent decades, hundreds of millions of people across the world have moved from rural areas to metropolitan regions, some of them crossing national borders on the way. While urbanization and globalization are proceeding with an intensity that seems unprecedented, these are only the most recent iterations of long-term transformations—cities have for centuries served as vital points of contact between different peoples, economies, and cultures. Making Cities Global explores the intertwined development of urbanization and globalization using a historical approach that demonstrates the many forms transnationalism has taken, each shaped by the circumstances of a particular time and place. It also emphasizes that globalization has not been persistent or automatic—many people have been as likely to resist or reject outside connections as to establish or embrace them.The essays in the collection revolve around three foundational themes. The first is an emphasis on connections among the United States, East and Southeast Asia, Latin America, and South Asia. Second, contributors ground their studies of globalization in the built environments and everyday interactions of the city, because even world-spanning practices must be understood as people experience them in their neighborhoods, workplaces, stores, and streets. Last is a fundamental concern with the role powerful empires and nation-states play in the emergence of globalizing and urbanizing processes.Making Cities Global argues that combining urban history with a transnational approach leads to a richer understanding of our increasingly interconnected world. In order to achieve prosperity, peace, and sustainability in metropolitan areas in the present and into the future, we must understand their historical origins and development.Contributors: Erica Allen-Kim, Leandro Benmergui, Matt Garcia, Richard Harris, Carola Hein, Nancy Kwak, Carl Nightingale, Amy C. Offner, Margaret O'Mara, Nikhil Rao, A. K. Sandoval-Strausz, Arijit Sen, Thomas J. Sugrue.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction. Why Transnationalize Urban History? -- PART I. GLOBALIZATION AND GOVERNANCE -- Chapter 1. Silicon Dreams: States, Markets, and the Transnational High-Tech Suburb -- Chapter 2. Homeownership and Social Welfare in the Americas: Ciudad Kennedy as a Midcentury Crossroads -- Chapter 3. Building the Alliance for Progress: Local and Transnational Encounters in a Low-Income Housing Program in Rio de Janeiro, 1962–67 -- Chapter 4. Slum Clearance as a Transnational Process in Globalizing Manila -- Chapter 5. Crossing Boundaries: The Global Exchange of Planning Ideas -- PART II. PLACE, CULTURE, AND POWER -- Chapter 6. Condos in the Mall: Suburban Transnational Typological Transformations in Markham, Ontario -- Chapter 7. Requiem for a Barrio: Race, Space, and Gentrification in Southern California -- Chapter 8. Transnational Performances in Chicago’s Independence Day Parade -- Chapter 9. Transnational Urban Meanings: The Passage of “Suburb” to India and Its Rough Reception -- Chapter 10. Suburbanization and Urban Practice in India -- Chapter 11. Will the Transnational City Be Digitized? The Dialectics of Diversified Spatial Media and Expanded Spatial Scopes -- Notes -- List of Contributors -- Index -- Acknowledgments