Kyoung-Ho Shin, Michael Timberlake

Seoul, Korea's Global City (eBook, PDF)

A New Urbanism for Upward Mobility

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the new urbanism in Seoul from the perspective of global political economy, focusing on the contexts in which the city has witnessed the transformation of its population structure, such as the rise of the global urban middle class and the city's increased nodal function in commodity chains.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 132
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351347464
• Artikelnr.: 59536122

Autorenporträt

Kyoung-Ho Shin is Professor of Sociology at Northwest Missouri State University, USA and the editor of Multicultural Education in Global Era.

Michael Timberlake is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Sociology at the University of Utah, USA. He is the editor of Urbanization in the World-Economy and the co-editor of What are Cities?

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Seoul in the Global Economy: (Re)conceptualizing a
Political Economy of Urban Development 2. Government's Economic Growth
Policy and Labor Structure in the city 3. A New Global Urban Middle Class?
Gangnam Area 4. Transnational Communities in Seoul Metropolitan Area 5. New
Town Project in Seoul: Neoliberal Urban Policy at Crossroad? 6. Hallyu in
Global Culture Flow: Moving Cultural Products Between Cities

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Introduction 1. Seoul in the Global Economy: (Re)conceptualizing a Political Economy of Urban Development 2. Government's Economic Growth Policy and Labor Structure in the city 3. A New Global Urban Middle Class? Gangnam Area 4. Transnational Communities in Seoul Metropolitan Area 5. New Town Project in Seoul: Neoliberal Urban Policy at Crossroad? 6. Hallyu in Global Culture Flow: Moving Cultural Products Between Cities

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"The book strikes out new territory and prompts ideas on what more should be done, including fieldwork-based grounded empirical studies shedding further light on the remarkable emergence of urban South Korea."

Hyung Min Kim for the Journal of Urban Affairs