Michele Acuto

How to Build a Global City

Recognizing the Symbolic Power of a Global Urban Imagination

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"How to Build a Global City investigates how key ideas underpinning the concept of the global city have driven the growth of Singapore, Sydney, and Dubai, and what the symbolic power of these notions are for today's global urbanism"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Januar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 394g
• ISBN-13: 9781501761300
• ISBN-10: 1501761307
• Artikelnr.: 62635114

Autorenporträt

Michele Acuto

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Speaking of Global Cities
2. The Idea(s)
3. The Debates
4. The Rise
5. The Trajectories
6. The Distinction
7. The Leadership
8. The Governance
9. The Strategies
10. The Cityzens
11. The Comparisons
12. Symbolic Entrepreneurs
Postscript