Frank Moulaert / Erik Swyngedouw (eds.)

The Globalized City

Economic Restructing and Social Polarization in European Cities
Herausgeber: Moulaert, Frank; Swyngedouw, Erik; Rodriguez, Arantxa

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The nine case-studies include: The Europeanization of Brussels, The Guggenheim museum in Bilbao, the new financial district in Dublin, the science-university-technology complex 'Adlershof' in Berlin, the 1998 World Expo in Lisbon, Athens's bid to stage the Olympic Games, Vienna's Donau City, Copenhagen's Oresund project, and Naples' new business district. These case-studies testify to the unshakable belief the city elites hold in the healing effects that the production of new urban mega-projects and -events has on their city's vitality and development potential. The book also analyses the down side of this development in terms of social exclusion, the formation of new urban elites, and the consolidation of less democratic forms of urban governance. The principal aim is to show how the production of these new urban spaces is actually also part of the production of a new polity, a new economy, and new forms of living urban life that are not very promising for a socially harmonious and just future for metropolitan urban Europe.

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This book explores the dynamics that have accompanied the implementation of large-scale Urban Development Projects (UDPs) in nine European cities within the European Union (EU). The principal aim is to show how the production of these new urban spaces is actually also part of the production of a new polity, a new economy, and new forms of living urban life that are not very promising for a socially harmonious and just future for metropolitan urban Europe.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juni 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 164mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 722g
• ISBN-13: 9780199260409
• ISBN-10: 0199260400
• Artikelnr.: 21805874

Autorenporträt

Moulaert, Frank (Professor of European Planning and Development, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne) / Rodriguez, Arantxa (Associate Professor, Faculty of Economics, University of the Basque Country, Bilbao, Spain) / Swyngedouw, Erik (Reader in Economic Geogra

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* 1: Erik Swyngedouw, Frank Moulaert, and Arantxa Rodriguez: 'The World
in a Grain of Sand': Large-Scale Urban Development Projects and the
Dynamics of 'Glocal' Transformations
* 2: Arantxa Rodriguez, Erik Swyngedouw, and Frank Moulaert: Urban
Restructuring, Social-Political Polarization, and New Urban Policies
* 3: Frank Moulaert, Arantxa Rodriguez, and Erik Swyngedouw:
Large-Scale Urban Development Projects, Urban Dynamics, and Social
Polarization: A Methodological Reflection
* 4: Pavlos-Marinos Delladetsima: The Olympic Village: A Redevelopment
Marathon in Greater Athens
* 5: John Andersen: Gambling, Politics, or Successful
Entrepreneurialism? The Orestad Project in Copenhagen
* 6: Harmut H^"aussermann and Katja Simons: Facing Fiscal Crisis: Urban
Flagship Projects in Berlin
* 7: Guy Baeten: Old Elites in a New City: Restructuring the Leopold
Quarter and the Europeanization of Brussels
* 8: Brendan Bartley and Kasey Treadwell Shine: Competitive City:
Governance and the Changing Dynamics of Urban Regeneration in Dublin
* 9: Vanessa Redak, Andreas Novy, and Joachim Becker: Modernizing or
Polarizing Vienna?
* 10: Arantxa Rodriguez and Elena Martinez: Restructuring Cities:
Miracles and Mirages in Urban Revitalization in Bilbao
* 11: Joao Cabral and Berta Rato: Urban Development for Competitiveness
and Cohesion: The Expo '98 Urban Project in Lisbon
* 12: Serena Vicari Haddock: Business as Usual: The Naples Business
District (Centro Direzionale di Napoli)
* 13: Erik Swyngedouw, Frank Moulaert, and Arantxa Rodriguez: The
Contradictions of Urbanizing Globalization