Edited by Allen J. Scott
There are now more than three hundred city-regions around the world with populations greater than one million. These city-regions are expanding vigorously, and they present many new and deep challenges to researchers and policy-makers in both the more developed and less developed parts of the
world. The processes of global economic integration and accelerated urban growth make traditional planning and policy strategies in these regions increasingly inadequate, while more effective approaches remain largely in various stages of hypothesis and experimentation.
Global
City-Regions represents a multifaceted effort to deal with the many different issues raised by these developments. It seeks at once to define the question of global city-regions and to describe the internal and external dynamics that shape them; it proposes a theorization of global city-regions
based on their economic and political responses to intensifying levels of globalization; and it offers a number of policy insights into the severe social problems that confront global city-regions as they come face to face with an economically and politically neoliberal world.
At a
moment when globalization is increasingly subject to critical scrutiny in many different quarters, this book provides a timely overview of its effects on urban and regional development, one of its most important (but perhaps least understood) corollaries. The book also offes a series of nuanced
visions of alternative possible futures.
Allen J. Scott: Introduction
Part I: Opening Arguments
1. Allen J. Scott, John Agnew, Edward W. Soja, and Michael Storper: Global City-Regions
Part II: On Practical Questions of Globalization and City-Region Development
2. Kenichi Ohmae: How to Invite Prosperity from
the Global Economy into a Region
3. James D. Wolfensohn: The World Bank and Global City-Regions: Reaching the Poor
4. Lucien Bouchard: Quebec in an Era of Global City-Regions
Part III: The Global City-Region: A New Geographic Phenomenon?
5. Sir Peter Hall: Global City-Regions
in the Twenty-First Century
6. Saskia Sassen: Global Cities and Global City-Regions: A Comparison
7. Roberto Camagni: The Economic Role and Spatial Contradictions of Global City-Regions: The Functional, Cognitive, and Evolutionary Context
8. John Friedmann: Intercity Networks in a
Globalizing Era
Part IV: The Competitive Advantages of Global City-Regions
9. Michael E. Porter: Regions and the New Economics of Competition
10. Thomas J. Courchene: Ontario as a North American Region-State, Toronto as a Global City-Region: Responding to the NAFTA
Challenge
Part V: Global City-Regions in Africa, Asia, and Latin America: Political and Economic Challenges
11. Richard Stren: Local Governance and Social Diversity in the Developing World: New Challenges for Globalizing City-Regions
12. Tim Campbell: Innovation and Risk-Taking:
Urban Governance in Latin America
13. Michael Douglass: Intercity Competition and the Question of Economic Resilience: Globalization and Crisis in Asia
14. Won Bae Kim: Repositioning of City-Regions: Korea after the Crisis
Part VI: Social Inequalities and Immigrant Niches in Global
City-Regions
15. Susan S. Fainstein: Inequality in Global City-Regions
16. Roger Waldinger: The Immigrant Niche in Global City-Regions: Concept, Patterns, Controversy
Part VII: Questions of Citizenship
17. James Holston: Urban Citizenship and Globalization
18. Engin F.
Isin: Istanbul's Conflicting Paths to Citizenship: Islamization and Globalization
Part VIII: The New Collective Order of Global City-Regions
19. Michael Keating: Governing Cities and Regions: Territorial Restructuring in a Global Age
20. Douglas Henton: Lessons from Silicon
Valley: Governance in a Global City-Region
21. Hubert Schmitz: Local Governance and Conflict Management: Reflections on a Brazilian Cluster
Part IX: Coda: Environmental Issues
22. Theodore Panayotou: Environmental Sustainability and Services in Developing Global City-Regions
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Allen J. Scott is Professor in both the Department of Policy Studies and the Department of Geography at the University of California, Los Angeles. He was a recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship in 1986-7 and was awarded Honors by the Association of American Geographers in 1987. He was elected
as corresponding fellow of the British Academy in 1999. In the winter of 1998-9 he occupied the Andre Siegfried Chair in the Institut d'Etudes Politiques, Paris. His most recent books are Regions and the World Economy (Oxford University Press, 1998) and The Cultural Economy of Cities (Sage, 2000).
