Routledge Advances in Geography
Branding Cities: Cosmopolitanism, Parochialism, and Social Change
1st Edition
Edited
By Stephanie Hemelryk Donald, Eleonore Kofman, Catherine Kevin
February 03, 2012
Fierce competitiveness between established and emerging major cities, such as Berlin, London, Shanghai and Sydney, has led to a pressure to excel as desirable locations for business, cultural activities, highly skilled migrants and tourists. At the same time, the transformation of settled and new ...
The Other Global City
1st Edition
Edited
By Shail Mayaram
April 08, 2010
What is a Global City? Who authorizes the World Class City? This edited volume interrogates the "global cities" literature, which views the city as a shimmering, financial "global network." Through a historical-ethnographic exploration of inter-ethnic relations in the "other global" cities of ...