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The city: today’s frontier zone
Glocalism: Journal of Culture, Politics and Innovation, 2014 Cities are complex systems, but they are incomplete systems. All cities are becoming the same, but all cities are competing with each other. Here actors from different worlds meet, but there are no clear rules of engagement.
Saskia Sassen
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A Study of the Cultural Development Path and Strategy of Chengdu as a Global City
Contemporary Social Sciences, 2021 Chengdu should promote its cultural development as a global city, for this move can help raise its international profile, strengthen its urban culture as soft power, give consideration to both the “hard environment” and “soft services” in building its
Zhang Li
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Shanghai’s Regenerated Industrial Waterfronts: Urban Lab for Sustainability Transitions?
Urban Planning, 2021 In China, Shanghai often serves as a place to introduce and try out new ideas. This is certainly the case with experimental urban planning and design solutions and sustainability transitions.
Harry den Hartog
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Confins, 2009 The globalization of the economy of the last three decades understood as a new phase of the capitalist system has seriously reshaped the geography of the economic production at the world scale.
Cynthia Ghorra-Gobin
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The Concept of an Imperial City in The Modern Global World [PDF]
SHS Web of Conferences, 2021 Research background: The author analyzes the phenomenon of cultural identity of the city and its cultural and economic aspects which allows us to create the concept of the Imperial city, and analyze its relationship with its own historical background and
Maltseva Yulia
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Testing a global city hypothesis : an assessment of polarization across US cities [PDF]
, 2012 Social polarization is perhaps most evident within the world's large cities where we can easily observe stark contrasts between wealth and poverty. A world city theoretical perspective has emerged that associates large cities importance in a global ...
Derudder, Ben +5 more
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Marina Bay et l’aménagement du front de mer à Singapour
Géographie et Cultures, 2007 Landscape master plan at Marina Bay aims at enhancing Singapore’s image as a « City-in-a-Garden ». That is the reason why in the City-State, natural environment resume nowadays to neatly manicured areas.
Olivier Sevin
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Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research, 2012 The state-sanctioned Shanghai International Film Festival (SIFF) is the only film festival accredited by the Fédération Internationale des Associations de Producteurs de Films (FIAPF) in the Greater China region.
Ma Ran
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Social Inclusion, 2023 This article highlights the lived experience of migrants who have come to London to set up a new life and are learning English to facilitate this process.
Silke Zschomler
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The 'global city' misconceived: the myth of 'global management' in transnational service firms [PDF]
, 2002 The ‘global city hypothesis' proposed by Saskia Sassen – and subsequently developed by Manuel Castells and others in the theory of a globalized urban network – has in recent years formed the basis for the argument that power and control in transnational ...
Abu-Leghod +64 more
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