Globalization, Modernity and the City. by Short, John Rennie

Table of Contents: “…Globalization, Modernity, and the City; Copyright; Contents; List of case studies; List of figures; List of tables; Preface; PART 1 Global generalities; 1 The Third Urban Revolution; 2 The Late Modern Wave of Globalization; 3 Metropolitan modernities; PART 2 Thematic specificities; 4 Urban spectaculars: World's Fairs and Summer Olympics; 5 Flânerie and the globalizing city; 6 Traffic, accidents and the modern city; 7 Modernity and urban utopias: the early Bauhaus; 8 Big city; PART 3 City particularities; 9 Alice Springs/Mparntwe: the postcolonial creative city.…”
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Small city on a big couch : a psychoanalysis of a provincial Mexican city / Karen Rodríguez. by Rodríguez, Karen (Social psychologist)

Table of Contents: “…Nine Conclusions:The Small City Succeeds Where the Global CityMight NotEpilogue; About the Author; Bibliography; Index.…”
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Design for London : experiments in urban thinking / edited by Peter Bishop and Lesley Williams.

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Title -- Epigraph -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Foreword: Strategies for a Global City -- Foreword: London, a City of Beauty, a City for its citizens -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Urban Interventions in a Time of Rapid Global Change -- 1 London, the unique city: the establishment of the Architecture and Urbanism Unit -- 2 Design for London: an Interesting but Short Life -- 3 High Street Places: Doing a Lot with a Little -- 4 Better Housing for London: How on Earth did We Pull that Off? …”
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Governing modern societies / edited by Richard V. Ericson and Nico Stehr.

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgments -- 1 The Ungovernability of Modern Societies: States, Democracies, Markets, Participation, and Citizens -- Part One: Globalization and Governance -- Introduction -- 2 The Changing Contours of Political Community: Rethinking Democracy in the Context of Globalization -- 3 Thinking Global Governance and Enacting Local Cultures -- 4 Hyperspace: A Political Ontology of the Global City -- Part Two: Modern Regimes of Governance -- Introduction -- 5 Divide and Govern -- 6 Governing Liberty.…”
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Architecture since 1400 / Kathleen James-Chakraborty. by James-Chakraborty, Kathleen, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Ming and Qing China -- Tenochtitlán and Cuzco -- Brunelleschi -- Medici Florence -- The Renaissance in Rome and the Veneto -- Resisting The Renaissance -- The Ottomans and the Safavids -- Early Modern South Asia -- Baroque Rome -- Spain and Portugal in the Americas -- Northern Baroque -- City and Country in Britain and Ireland -- Living on the North American Land -- Court and Dwelling in East and Southeast Asia -- Edo Japan -- Neoclassicism, the Gothic Revival, and the Civic Realm -- The Industrial Revolution -- Paris in the Nineteenth Century -- The Domestic Ideal -- Empire Building -- Chicago from the Great Fire to the Great War -- Inventing the Avant-Garde -- Architecture for a Mass Audience -- Imposing Urban Order -- The Modern Movement in the Americas -- Africa: Villages and Cities -- Postcolonial Modernism and Beyond -- Postwar Japan -- From Postmodern to Neomodern: The United States and Europe -- Chinese Global Cities.…”
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Mapping Michel Serres.

Table of Contents: “…Of Stones, Angels, and Humans: Michel Serres and the Global City"The Gift Is a Given": On the Errant Ethic of Michel Serres; "Being Free to Write for a Woman": The Question of Gender in the Work of Michel Serres; Love, Death, and Parasites; Works Cited; Contributors; Index.…”
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Mobile urbanism : cities and policymaking in the global age / Eugene McCann and Kevin Ward, editors ; foreword by Allan Cochrane.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Urban assemblages : territories, relations, practices, and power / Eugene McCann and Kevin Ward -- A counterhegemonic relationality of place / Doreen Massey -- The spaces of circulating knowledge : city strategies and global urban governmentality / Jennifer Robinson -- Creative moments : working culture, through municipal socialism and neoliberal urbanism / Jamie Peck -- Policies in motion and in place : the case of business improvement districts / Kevin Ward -- Points of reference : knowledge of elsewhere in the politics of urban drug policy / Eugene McCann -- The urban political pathology of emerging infectious disease in the age of the global city / Roger Keil and S. Harris Ali -- Airports, territoriality, and urban governance / Donald McNeill -- Conclusion : Cities assembled : space, neoliberalization, (re)territorialization, and comparison / Kevin Ward and Eugene McCann.…”
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Globalization : the greatest hits, a global studies reader / edited by Manfred B. Steger.

Table of Contents: “…/ Paul Hirst and Grahame Thompson -- Preface to Empire / Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri -- The global city model / Saskia Sassen -- The globalization of sexual identities / Dennis Altman -- Globalization: an ascendant paradigm? …”

Geography.

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Hong Kong : Culture and the Politics of Disappearance. by Abbas, Ackbar

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Urban Geography : A Critical Introduction. by Jonas, Andrew E. G.

Table of Contents: “…-- 3.6 Summary and Conclusions -- 3.7 Further Reading -- Chapter 4: A World of Cities -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 There is Nothing New About Global Cities…”
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Globalization and the state in contemporary crime fiction : a world of crime / Andrew Pepper, David Schmid, editor.

Table of Contents: “…Notes on the Contributors; Introduction: Globalization and€the€State in€Contemporary Crime Fiction; The State and€the€Globe; Globalization and€the€State in€Contemporary Crime Fiction; A World of€Crime; Bibliography; The Bad and€the€Evil: Justice in€the€Novels of€Pago Ignacio Taibo II; Bibliography; Work and€Death in€the€Global City: Natsuo Kirino's Out as€Neoliberal Noir; Transnational Noir; Noir in€the€Global City; Out as€Neoliberal Noir; "Lunch of€Champions"; The Gendering of€Exploitation; Taking Out the€Trash; Noir or Life Between Two Deaths; (Beyond) The€Neoliberal Death Drive.…”
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Feeding the city : work and food culture of the Mumbai dabbawalas / Sara Roncaglia. by Roncaglia, Sara

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Feeding the city : work and food culture of the Mumbai dabbawalas / Sara Roncaglia. by Roncaglia, Sara

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Aging in Asia / Jason L. Powell and Ian G. Cook, editors.

Table of Contents: “…Khan -- Growing old in a global city: the challenge of urbanization for active aging in Hong Kong / Helen Bartlett -- Active aging and China: perspectives and issues / Sheying Chen, Elaina Y. …”
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Key concepts in urban studies / M. Gottdiener and Leslie Budd. by Gottdiener, Mark, Budd, Leslie, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…The Chicago school -- The city -- Community -- Counties, places, MSAs and other census definitions -- De-territorialization and re-territorialization -- Education and reproduction of labor -- Environmental concerns -- Feminine space -- Fiscal crisis -- Gentrification -- Ghetto and racial segregation -- Global cities -- Globalization -- Homelessness -- Housing -- Immigration and migration -- Inequality and poverty -- The informal economy -- Masculine space -- Models of urban growth -- Multi-centered metropolitan region -- Neighborhood -- New urbanism -- Nightlife and urban nightscapes -- Overurbanization -- the primate city -- Pedestrian and automobile -- Planning -- cities, suburbs, metropolitan regions -- Postmodern and modern urbanism -- Preservation -- Real estate -- Slums and shanty towns -- Socio-spatial approach -- Sprawl -- Suburb and suburbanization -- Sustainable urbanization -- Uneven development/boom and bust cycles -- Urban and suburban social movements -- Urban politics and suburban politics -- Urban violence and crime -- Urbanization and urbanism.…”
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The new urban immigrant workforce : innovative models for labor organizing / editors, Sarumathi Jayaraman and Immanuel Ness.

Table of Contents: “…Center stage : domestic workers organizing in the global city / Ai-jen Poo and Eric Tang -- 8. Organizing in the South Asian domestic worker community : pushing the boundaries of the law and organizing project / Monika Batra -- 9. …”
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The city is the factory : new solidarities and spatial strategies in an urban age / edited by Miriam Greenberg and Penny Lewis.

Table of Contents: “…: retail, neoliberal urbanism, and the "Fight for 15" / Stephanie Luce and Penny Lewis -- Context, coalitions, and organizing : immigrant labor rights advocacy in San Francisco and Houston / Els de Graauw and Shannon Gleeson -- A bridge too far : industrial gentrification and the dynamics of sacrifice in New York City / Melissa Checker -- Radical ruptures : crisis organizing and the spatial politics of uneven redevelopment / Miriam Greenberg -- The other low-carbon protagonists : poor people's movements and climate politics in a global city / Daniel Aldana Cohen -- The space of speech / Lize Mogel -- Spatial politics and urban borders : a study of Buenos Aires / Alejandro Grimson -- From workers in the city to workers cities? …”
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Globalization under construction : governmentality, law, and identity / Richard Warren Perry and Bill Maurer, editors.

Table of Contents: “…Global strategic vision : managing the world / Susan Roberts -- Zones of new sovereignty in Southeast Asia / Aihwa Ong -- International political economy as a cultural practice : the metaphysics of capital mobility / Bill Maurer -- Spanish immigration law and the construction of difference : citizens and "illegals" on Europe's southern border / Kitty Calavita and Liliana Suárez-Navaz -- South Asian workers in the Gulf : jockeying for places / Karen Leonard -- Illegality, borderlands, and the space of nonexistence / Susan Bibler Coutin -- Christian conversion and "racial" labor capacities : constructing racialized identities in Hawai'i / Sally Engle Merry -- Sex and space in the global city / Lisa Sanchez -- Works in progress : traditional knowledge, biological diversity, and intellectual property in a neoliberal era / Rosemary J. …”
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Centre of the cosmos / by Steven Seidenberg.

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