The pivotal nodes in the world city network are global cities---cities of supreme strategic value in global economy and politics, science and technology, culture, and society. Global Cities: Past, Present and Future explores the evolution of global cities---their formation, rise, development and tendencies. This book summarizes and interprets global tendencies and also puts forward a theoretical framework that will help researchers understand these cities better. It also makes a compelling case for understanding every city in terms of evolutionary dynamics.
The first eight chapters of the book discuss the ontology of global city evolution and patterns, forms and trends of development. The last two chapters study the case of Shanghai, which aims to build itself into an important global city by 2050. This case study illustrates the shaping of a new type of global city that demonstrates new characteristics of the globalized space.
ZHOU Zhenhua is currently the Dean of Shanghai Institute for Global City, the People's Republic of China. He is an economist and was, until recently, the Director of the Development Research Center, Shanghai Municipal People's Government. He is also the President of Shanghai Economic Society. He graduated from Mudanjiang Teachers College in 1982 and Fujian Normal University in 1985, receiving a bachelor's degree in law and a master's degree in economics, respectively. During 1985-1987, he taught at the Department of Economics in Nanjing University. He completed his doctorate in Economics from Renmin University of China, in 1990. ZHOU has taught and served as the Deputy Director at the Institute of Economic Research, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences. For about three decades, he has been engaged in the study of urban development strategies and policies and has published several books and journal articles. The books he has published include: The Development of Service Economy: A General Trend of the Changing Economy in China (2015) and the edited volume World City: International Lessons and Shanghai's Development (2004).
Title: Global Cities: Past, Present and Future (SAGE China Studies)
Author: Zhenhua, ZHOU
ISBN: 9789353882990
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Publisher: SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd
Publication Date: 2020-08-03
Number of Pages: 440
Weight: 0.7002 kg