This chapter reviews the discursive underpinnings of the growing vision of 'going
global'adopted by many cities in south-east Asia as a strategy for urban growth and …

This paper attempts to reframe debates on the equity implications of spatial, socioeconomic,
and political change in global cities in developing countries through a review of recent …

This article applies Massey's (2005) call for a relational understanding of space that can
challenge aspatial readings of globalization to the study of globalization in a rural context …

This book illustrates the importance of global cities for world politics and highlights the
diplomatic connections between cities and global governance. While there is a growing …

This book explores the connections between two of the most transformative processes of the
twenty-first century, namely climate change and globalization. In this book, Leichenko and …

Urban Theory and the Urban Experience brings together classic and contemporary
approaches to urban research in order to reveal the intellectual origins of urban studies and …

Numerous studies have focused on the global city, the sustainable city, the resilient city, the
creative city, and the smart city, analyzing their politics, ideologies, and social implications …

In recent years, the interdisciplinary fields of colonial and postcolonial studies have been
enriched by nuanced analyses of the ways in which racialised colonial identities (cross-cut …

Yasser Elsheshtawy explores Dubai's history from its beginnings as a small fishing village to
its place on the world stage today, using historical narratives, travel descriptions, novels and …

This paper discusses some of the limitations of the global city hypothesis, in particular its
economistic tendencies, the suppression of political and cultural domains, and the …