Another Global City
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Another Global City

Historical Explorations into the Transnational Municipal Moment, 1850–2000

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Another Global City

Historical Explorations into the Transnational Municipal Moment, 1850–2000

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This collection uses the transnational activities of municipal urban governments to historicize the origins and development of the global city, focusing on how urban problems were addressed with concepts that emerged from the "world in between" nations and cities.

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2008
ISBN
9780230613812
Topic
History
Subtopic
World History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Another Global CityHistorical Explorations into the TransnationalMunicipal Moment, 1850–2000
  3. Contents
  4. Preface
  5. Notes on the Contributors
  6. CHAPTER 1 IntroductionGlobal City, Take 2:A View from Urban History
  7. CHAPTER 2 In the Precincts of the Global CityThe Transnational Network of Municipal Affairsin Melbourne, Australia, at the End of theNineteenth Century
  8. CHAPTER 3 Mediterranean ConnectionsThe Circulation of Municipal Knowledgeand Practices during the Ottoman Reforms,c.1830–1910
  9. CHAPTER 4 Pacific Crossings?Urban Progressivism in Modern Japan
  10. CHAPTER 5 A City in the World of CitiesLyon, France; Municipal Associations as PoliticalResources in the Twentieth Century
  11. CHAPTER 6 Selling the City-StatePlanning and Housing in Singapore,1945–1990
  12. CHAPTER 7 Transnational Municipalism ina Europe of Second CitiesRebuilding Birmingham withMunicipal Networks
  13. CHAPTER 8 Mayor Edward I. Koch andNew York’s Municipal Foreign Policy,1977–1990
  14. CHAPTER 9 The Municipal Making ofTransnational NetworksA Case Study of Montreal’sTwinning with Shanghai
  15. CHAPTER 10 Latin American Municipalities inTransnational NetworksReforming Municipal Government inRosario, Argentina, and Montevideo, Uruguay,in the 1990s
  16. CONCLUSION Lost in Translation?Mapping, Molding, and Managing theTransnational Municipal Moment
  17. EPILOGUE Cities, Competition, and CooperationProspect Meets Retrospect
  18. Notes
  19. Index