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Cities in a World Economy examines the emergence of global cities as a new social formation. As sites of rapid and widespread developments in the areas of finance, information and people, global cities lie at the core of the major processes of globalization. The book features a cross-disciplinary approach to urban sociology using global examples, and discusses the impact of global processes on the social structure of cities. The Fifth Edition reflects the most current data available and explores recent debates such as the role of cities in mitigating environmental problems, the global refugee crisis, Brexit, and the rise of Donald Trump in the United States.
The Urbanizing of Global Governance Challenges
The Urbanizing of Global Governance Challenges
Many of today’s major global governance challenges become tangible, urgent, and practical in cities worldwide. In this regard, we can speak of an urbanizing of such global challenges. Among such global governance challenges are those concerning the environment; human insecurity, including the spread of violence against people of all ages and a proliferation of racisms; the urbanizing of war that comes about with asymmetric war; and the sharp rise in economic forms of violence. But cities are also sites where these challenges can be studied empirically and where policy design and implementation often are more feasible than at the national level. Urban leaders and activists have had to deal with many of these ...
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