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Certain cities—most famously New York, London, and Tokyo—have been identified as “global cities,” whose function in the world economy transcends national borders. Without the same fanfare, formerly peripheral and secondary cities have been growing in importance, emerging as global cities in their own right. The striking similarity of the skylines of Dubai, Miami, and Singapore is no coincidence: despite following different historical paths, all three have achieved newfound prominence through parallel trends.In this groundbreaking book, Alejandro Portes and Ariel C. Armony demonstrate how the rapid and unexpected rise of these three cities recasts global urban studies. They identify the constellation of factors that allow certain urban places to become “emerging global cities”—centers of commerce, finance, art, and culture for entire regions. The book traces the transformations of Dubai, Miami, and Singapore, identifying key features common to these emerging global cities. It contrasts them with “global hopefuls,” cities that, at one point or another, aspired to become global, and analyzes how Hong Kong is threatened with the loss of this status. Portes and Armony highlight the importance of climate change to the prospects of emerging global cities, showing how the same economic system that propelled their rise now imperils their future. Emerging Global Cities provides a powerful new framework for understanding the role of peripheral cities in the world economy and how they compete for and sometimes achieve global standing.

Megacities. --- Urbanization. --- City planning. --- Dubai. --- Hong Kong. --- Miami. --- Singapore. --- climate change. --- global cities. --- global urban studies. --- urban studies. --- world economy.

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This collection is the first to examine how the city is written in modern Irish fiction. Focusing on the multi-faceted, layered, and ever-changing topography of the city in Irish writing, it brings together studies of Irish and Northern Irish fictions which contribute to a more complete picture of modern Irish literature and Irish urban cultural identities. It offers a critical introduction to the Irish city as it represented in fiction as a plural space to mirror the plurality of contemporary Irish identities north and south of the border. The chapters combine to provide a platform for new research in the field of Irish urban literary studies, including analyses of the fiction of authors including James Joyce, Roddy Doyle, Kate O’Brien, Hugo Hamilton, Kevin Barry, and Rosemary Jenkinson. An exciting and diverse range of fictions is introduced and examined with the aim of generating a cohesive perspective on Irish urban fictions and to stimulate further discussion in this emerging area.

English fiction --- Irish authors --- History and criticism. --- British literature. --- British and Irish Literature. --- Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns). --- Urban geography. --- Geography

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This book integrates planning, policy, economics, and urban design into an approach to crafting innovative places. Exploring new paradigms of innovative places under the framework of globalisation, urbanisation, and new technology, it argues against state-centric policies to innovation and focuses on how a globalized approach can shape innovative capacity and competitiveness. It notably situates the innovative place making paradigm in a broader context of globalisation, urbanisation, the knowledge economy and technological advancement, and employs an international perspective that includes a wide range of case studies from America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. Developing a co-design and co-creation paradigm that integrates governments, the private sector and the community into shared understanding and collaborative action in crafting innovative places, it discusses place-based innovation in Australian context to inform policy making and planning, and to contribute to policy debates on programs of smart cities and communities. .

Sociology, Urban. --- Management. --- Urban Studies/Sociology. --- Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns). --- Innovation/Technology Management. --- Urban sociology --- Cities and towns --- Administration --- Industrial relations --- Organization

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This book aims to present implications for China’s urban development through international comparison of urbanization process from the perspective of spatio-temporal pattern, driving factors, rural-urban interactions, development trends and economic-ecological-social synergic development. Followed the research hotspot of the international urban studies, this book identifies challenges and opportunities in the process of urban development through analyzing and comparing urbanization pathways of several Asian countries as for representatives. It provides both decision support for China’s urban development and management, and scientific support for the sustainable urban development in Asian countries. .

Urban geography. --- Environmental management. --- Sustainable development. --- Regional economics. --- Spatial economics. --- Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns). --- Environmental Management. --- Sustainable Development. --- Regional/Spatial Science.

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Im Mainstream der Beteiligungsforschung fungiert das brasilianische Porto Alegre als ein gelungenes Modell partizipativer Kommunalpolitik. Die Bezeichnung „Stadt der Demokratie“ prägt das Image dieser Stadt, die oft in Verbindung mit dem Verfahren des Bürgerhaushaltes untersucht wird. Doch Rogerio R. Mororó präsentiert ein ganz anderes Bild von Porto Alegre. Er kommt in seiner Analyse zu den Ergebnissen, dass direkte Bürgerbeteiligung in Porto Alegre bislang zwar zu mehr Legitimation politischer Entscheidungsfindungen beigetragen hat, jedoch nicht zu Veränderungen bestehender Machtstrukturen und ebenso wenig zur spürbaren Minderung von Missständen wie krassen räumlichen und sozialen Disparitäten in der lokalen Gesellschaft. Diese Tatsache wird jedoch von einem demokratischen Mythos verklärt. Der Inhalt Demokratietheorie, direkte Bürgerbeteiligung und Partizipationsforschung Bürgerhaushalt und demokratische Entscheidungsfindung Partizipative Stadtplanung in Brasilien Diskurstheorie, Mythos- und Gouvernementalitätsforschung Die Zielgruppen Dozierende, Studierende und Forschende der Sozial- und Regionalwissenschaften, z.B. der Geografie, Politikwissenschaft, Soziologie, Stadt- und Regionalplanung Der Autor Rogerio R. Mororó stammt aus Brasilien und hat das Studium der Geographie, Politikwissenschaft und Raumordnung in Tübingen und Stuttgart absolviert. Im Jahr 2013 hat er seine Promotion am geographischen Institut der Universität Tübingen abgeschlossen und ist jetzt dort Lehrbeauftragter.

Human geography. --- Urban geography. --- Political science. --- Public administration. --- Human Geography. --- Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns). --- Political Science. --- Public Administration.