Making Cities Global : : The Transnational Turn in Urban History /

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

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 it...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (352 p.) :; 39 illus.
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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

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