Doreen Massey: World City | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9780745640600 | World City | Doreen Massey | Taschenbuch | 272 S. | Englisch | 2007

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Beschreibung

Cities around the world are striving to be 'global'. This book tells the story of one of them, and in so doing raises questions of identity, place and political responsibility that are essential for all cities.

World City focuses its account on London, one of the greatest of these global cities. London is a city of delight and of creativity. It also presides over a country increasingly divided between North and South and over a neo-liberal form of globalisation - the deregulation, financialisation and commercialisation of all aspects of life - that is resulting in an evermore unequal world.

World City explores how we can understand this complex narrative and asks a question that should be asked of any city: what does this place stand for?

Following the implosion within the financial sector, such issues are even more vital. In a new Preface, Doreen Massey addresses these changed times. She argues that, whatever happens, the evidence of this book is that we must not go back to 'business as usual', and she asks whether the financial crisis might open up a space for a deeper rethinking of both our economy and our society.

Über den Autor

Doreen Massey is Professor of Geography at the Open University.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements vii

Preface: After the Crash ix

Introduction: 'the future of our world'? 1

Part I Inventing a world city 27

1 Capital delight 29

2 'A successful city, but . . .' 54

3 Imagining the city 73

Part II The world city in the country 95

4 The golden goose? 97

5 An alternative regional geography 114

6 Who owes whom? 130

7 Reworking the geographies of allegiance 149

Part III The world city in the world 163

8 Grounding the global 165

9 Identity, place, responsibility 177

10 A politics of place beyond place 188

Concluding reflections 211

Notes 218

References 232

Index 251

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2007
Fachbereich:	Geografie
Genre:	Geowissenschaften
Rubrik:	Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	272 S.
ISBN-13:	9780745640600
ISBN-10:	0745640605
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Massey, Doreen
Hersteller:	Polity Press John Wiley & Sons
Maße:	210 x 141 x 21 mm
Von/Mit:	Doreen Massey
Erscheinungsdatum:	24.09.2007
Gewicht:	0,34 kg

Artikel-ID: 101998592