Boris Vormann

Global Port Cities in North America (eBook, ePUB)

Urbanization Processes and Global Production Networks

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores globalization processes under neoliberalism and their impacts on sociospatial dynamics in North American global port cities since the mid-1970s, shedding new light on the relationship between urbanization and globalization processes and the development of port cities as a reflection of larger multi-scalar and multi-causal processes.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. November 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317577126
• Artikelnr.: 41940176

Autorenporträt

Boris Vormann is a lecturer in political science at Freie Universität's John-F.-Kennedy Institute and associated researcher at the Université du Québec à Montréal.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Introduction: Global Cities in Global Production Networks 1.
Globalization's Hidden Anchors 2. Blind Spots of Globalization Part II:
Discourses of Urban Progress: Creating a Postindustrial Utopia 3. The
Logistics Revolution and the End of Fordism 4. The Redundancy of Fordist
Infrastructures 5. Imagining a Post-industrial Future Part III:
Frictionless Supply Chains: Utopia's Negative Externalities 6. How Social
and Ecological Costs Have Been Externalized 7. Who Pays?: A Geography of
Costs 8. Secure Flows, Optimized Networks Part IV: Conclusions: State
Legitimacy and the Public Good 9. Infrastructures and Spectacles of the
Global 10. Arguments of False Necessity: Discontinuities and Potential
Futures