Global cities and urban theory /
McNeill, Donald, 1969-
Global cities and urban theory / Donald McNeill. - London, UK : Sage Publications; 2017. - x, 182 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-177) and index.
Machine generated contents note: Bright lights, global cities -- Cultural and political economies -- Material turns -- The organization of the book -- Centrality -- Caput Mundi: capital of the world -- The `original globalizer'? Cities and territorialized religion -- The cathedral and the global city -- Theological centrality -- Popemobile: universality and visibility -- Creative globalization? Pilgrimage practices -- The Bible and the global South -- Flat Cities -- Actor-networks and political economies -- A Paris journey; or, the problem of the `zoom' -- How big is the city? -- World's Fairs -- Centre of calculation -- The objects that hold Paris together -- Small Paris: recomposition -- A rumour of cities -- Global Urban Order(Ing) -- Metageographies -- Global rankings -- The `ordinary city' debates -- Ontologies of big cities -- Standard cities -- Global standards I: hotels -- Global standards II: air conditioning -- Logistical Territories -- Circumferential and surface geographies -- Logistical territories -- Port ontologies -- A ship-centric ontology of the urban? -- Airport territories -- The production of Hong Kong International Airport -- Centres of Calculation -- CBD: the central business district as a `centre of calculation' -- Office geographies -- Bodies and work -- Saskia Sassen's financial centres -- Metrologies of centrality: critical accounting -- Calculable city space -- Global cities and the `super-rich' -- Moral geographies -- Forensic urban geography -- World-Making -- Models, experts and consultants -- Actualization -- The selling of the Silicon Valley model -- Management consultancy as worlding practice -- Co-presence and business travel -- Gurus and urbanologists -- San Francisco and the global expansion of Uber -- Testbeds and experimentation -- Urban laboratories: New Songdo and Masdar City -- CONCLUSIONS -- Distance and panorama -- Global cities are miscellaneous concentrations of firms -- Calculated territories -- Power and cities -- Ethnographic sensitivities. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
9781446267066 (hardcover) 1446267067 (hardcover) 9781446267073 (paperback) 1446267075 (paperback)
2016938535
Cities and towns.
Globalization--Political aspects.
Globalization--Economic aspects.
Urbanization--Political aspects.
Urbanization--Economic aspects.
Cities and towns.
Globalization--Economic aspects.
Globalization--Political aspects.
Urbanization--Economic aspects.
Urbanization--Political aspects.
HT151 / .M389 2017
307.76
Global cities and urban theory / Donald McNeill. - London, UK : Sage Publications; 2017. - x, 182 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-177) and index.
Machine generated contents note: Bright lights, global cities -- Cultural and political economies -- Material turns -- The organization of the book -- Centrality -- Caput Mundi: capital of the world -- The `original globalizer'? Cities and territorialized religion -- The cathedral and the global city -- Theological centrality -- Popemobile: universality and visibility -- Creative globalization? Pilgrimage practices -- The Bible and the global South -- Flat Cities -- Actor-networks and political economies -- A Paris journey; or, the problem of the `zoom' -- How big is the city? -- World's Fairs -- Centre of calculation -- The objects that hold Paris together -- Small Paris: recomposition -- A rumour of cities -- Global Urban Order(Ing) -- Metageographies -- Global rankings -- The `ordinary city' debates -- Ontologies of big cities -- Standard cities -- Global standards I: hotels -- Global standards II: air conditioning -- Logistical Territories -- Circumferential and surface geographies -- Logistical territories -- Port ontologies -- A ship-centric ontology of the urban? -- Airport territories -- The production of Hong Kong International Airport -- Centres of Calculation -- CBD: the central business district as a `centre of calculation' -- Office geographies -- Bodies and work -- Saskia Sassen's financial centres -- Metrologies of centrality: critical accounting -- Calculable city space -- Global cities and the `super-rich' -- Moral geographies -- Forensic urban geography -- World-Making -- Models, experts and consultants -- Actualization -- The selling of the Silicon Valley model -- Management consultancy as worlding practice -- Co-presence and business travel -- Gurus and urbanologists -- San Francisco and the global expansion of Uber -- Testbeds and experimentation -- Urban laboratories: New Songdo and Masdar City -- CONCLUSIONS -- Distance and panorama -- Global cities are miscellaneous concentrations of firms -- Calculated territories -- Power and cities -- Ethnographic sensitivities. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
9781446267066 (hardcover) 1446267067 (hardcover) 9781446267073 (paperback) 1446267075 (paperback)
2016938535
Cities and towns.
Globalization--Political aspects.
Globalization--Economic aspects.
Urbanization--Political aspects.
Urbanization--Economic aspects.
Cities and towns.
Globalization--Economic aspects.
Globalization--Political aspects.
Urbanization--Economic aspects.
Urbanization--Political aspects.
HT151 / .M389 2017
307.76