Emerging Global Cities: Origin, Structure, and Significance

Alejandro Portes; Ariel C. Armony

Published by Columbia University Press 2022

Emerging Global Cities

Origin, Structure, and Significance

Alejandro Portes and Ariel C. Armony

https://doi.org/10.7312/port20516

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About this book

This book identifies the constellation of factors that allow certain urban places to become “emerging global cities”—centers of commerce, finance, art, and culture for entire regions. It traces the transformations of Dubai, Miami, and Singapore, identifying key features common to these cities.

Author / Editor information

Alejandro Portes is professor of law and distinguished scholar of arts and sciences at the University of Miami. He is the Howard Harrison and Gabrielle S. Beck Professor of Sociology (emeritus) and the founding director of the Center for Migration and Development at Princeton University. Portes is also a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the former president of the American Sociological Association. His books include City on the Edge: The Transformation of Miami (1993) and Immigrant America: A Portrait (fourth edition, 2014).

Ariel C. Armony is vice chancellor for global affairs and director of the University Center for International Studies at the University of Pittsburgh, where he is also a professor in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs. He was a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, a Fulbright scholar at Nankai University, and a resident fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center. His publications include The Dubious Link: Civic Engagement and Democratization (2004) and, with Portes, The Global Edge: Miami in the Twenty-First Century (2018).

Reviews

James F. Hollifield, Ora Nixon Arnold Professor of International Political Economy, SMU:
Emerging Global Cities breaks new ground by bringing together into one comparative study a set of emerging global cities (and hopefuls) to explain how the global capitalist system is devolving power to new regional hubs. Portes and Armony bring new perspectives—on climate change, poverty, and inequality, for example—to bear in their study, with great attention to class and ethnic structures in these cities.

Natasha Iskander, New York University:
Portes and Armony offer us an exceptionally compelling and deeply perceptive rendering of twenty-first-century entrepôt cities—emergent urban centers driven and contoured by flows of people, ideas, money, and power. The conceptual tools they give us to understand how and why cities from Lagos to São Paulo to Miami are redrawing the global political map and charting our ecological future are indispensable for anyone interested in the rise and fall of cities and the flourishing of urban life.

Min Zhou, University of California, Los Angeles:
Emerging Global Cities examines the processes of globalization from below through distinct yet potentially generalizable historical sequences. Portes and Armony explain how and why some cities in the developing periphery have managed to rise from positions of inferiority and insignificance to become leading players in the global economy. This book will soon become a benchmark for the study of global cities and a new classic for urban studies, development studies, and economic sociology.

Paul DiMaggio, New York University:
Emerging Global Cities sets a new standard for the comparative study of cities. Combining historical analysis, political economy, demography, and institutional analysis with a deep understanding of the global division of economic labor, the authors produce a set of gripping profiles of the successful, the also-rans, and the precarious, and place them all in a compelling theoretical framework.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
INTRODUCTION Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART I
CHAPTER 1 THE ROLE OF CITIES IN THE CAPITALIST ECONOMY An Overview Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
CHAPTER 2 DUBAI From Marginal Gulf Town to Regional Hub Rana Tomaira Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	34
CHAPTER 3 MIAMI From Winter Resort to Hemispheric Capital Brandon P. Martinez Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	66
CHAPTER 4 SINGAPORE From Fishing Village to World-Class Metropolis Larry Liu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	100
PART II
CHAPTER 5 GLOBAL HOPEFULS An Overview Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	125
CHAPTER 6 NEW ORLEANS A Century of Decline Larry Liu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	142
CHAPTER 7 SÃO PAULO Brazil’s Always-Aspiring City Hassan De Ferrari and Anthony Ocepek Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	160
CHAPTER 8 LAGOS Africa’s New Dubai? Rosa Hassan De Ferrari and Anthony Ocepek Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	187
PART III
CHAPTER 9 HONG KONG A Threatened Global City Larry Liu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
CONCLUSION Theoretical Implications, Climate Change, and Future Challenges Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	237
NOTES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	253
REFERENCES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	303
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	335

Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Illustrations
- Other: 50 b&w illustrations
Keywords: global cities; urban studies; global urban studies; world economy; Dubai; Miami; Singapore; Hong Kong; climate change

eBook

Published: November 16, 2022
ISBN: 9780231555876