As the material anchors of globalization, North America’s global port cities channel flows of commodities, capital, and tourists. This book explores how economic globalization processes have shaped these cities’ political institutions, social structures, and urban identities since the mid-1970s. Although the impacts of financialization on global cities have been widely discussed, it is curious that how the global integration of commodity chains actually happens spatially – creating a quantitatively new, global organization of production, distribution, and consumption processes – remains understudied. The book uses New York City, Los Angeles, Vancouver, and Montreal as case studies of how once-redundant spaces have been reorganized, and crucially, reinterpreted, so as to accommodate new flows of goods and people – and how, in these processes, social, environmental, and security costs of global production networks have been shifted to the public.
Boris Vormann
Global Port Cities in North America [EPUB ebook]
Urbanization Processes and Global Production Networks
Global Port Cities in North America [EPUB ebook]
Urbanization Processes and Global Production Networks
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Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 262 ● ISBN 9781317577126 ● Publisher Taylor and Francis ● Published 2014 ● Downloadable 3 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 3514086 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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