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Author Baisotti, Pablo

Title New Global Cities in Latin America and Asia : Welcome to the Twenty-First Century
Published Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2022
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Description 1 online resource (365 pages)
Contents Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I. Asia: Center of Growth and Globalism -- 1. Chinese Cities from the Ground to the Sky: Building Suzhou as a Global City beyond Tradition | Raffaele Pernice -- 2. The Urban Geographies of a Small Island: A Dialectical Spatial Approach | Hong Gang -- 3. The Rise of Chongqing and Queretaro: The Territorial Dimension of the Divergent Trajectories of Two Emerging Urban Economies in China and Mexico | Miguel Ángel Hidalgo Martínez -- 4. Migration, Expatriation, and Heterosexuality in a Globalized City-Singapore | Liangni Sally Liu -- 5. City-Regions Reconsidered | Allen J. Scott -- Part II. Latin America: Opening, Globalization, and Crisis -- 6. Global Cities in Peripheral Countries: Argentina in the New International Labor Division | Ulises Girolimo and Patricio Feldman -- 7. The Regional Planning, Development, and Governance of Metropolitan Secondary City Clusters: A Case Study of Santiago and the Central Chile Region | Brian Roberts, José Tomás Videla, and Marcela Allué Nualart -- 8. Changes in Consumption in Peru during the Globalization Process | Nadia Nora Urriola Canchari -- 9. Urban Conflict and Transnational Crime in Latin American Cities | John P. Sullivan -- 10. The Emergence of a Global Urban Region: The Urban Corridor Automotive and Aeronautical Industries in the Central-Bajío Region, Mexico | Adrián Moreno Mata -- 11. Economy, Inequalities, and Cities: Chinese Influence in Latin America | Pablo Baisotti -- General Conclusions -- Contributors -- Index
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Subject Cities and towns -- Latin America -- 21st century
Cities and towns -- Asia -- 21st century
Cities and towns -- Developing countries -- 21st century
Globalization -- Latin America -- 21st century
Globalization -- Asia -- 21st century
Globalization -- Developing countries -- 21st century
SUBJECT Latin America -- Social conditions -- 21st century
Asia -- Social conditions -- 21st century
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0472902741
9780472902743