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Global Port Cities in North America: Urbanization Processes and Global Production Networks book cover

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Global Port Cities in North America Urbanization Processes and Global Production Networks

By Boris Vormann Copyright 2015
278 Pages 23 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

262 Pages 23 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

262 Pages 23 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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As the material anchors of globalization, North America’s global port cities channel flows of commodities, capital, and tourists. This book explores how economic globalization processes have shaped these cities' political institutions, social structures, and urban identities since the mid-1970s. Although the impacts of financialization on global cities have been widely discussed, it is curious... Read more

Part I: Introduction: Global Cities in Global Production Networks  1. Globalization’s Hidden Anchors  2. Blind Spots of Globalization  Part II: Discourses of Urban Progress: Creating a Postindustrial Utopia  3. The Logistics Revolution and the End of Fordism  4. The Redundancy of Fordist Infrastructures  5. Imagining a Post-industrial Future  Part III: Frictionless Supply Chains: Utopia’s Negative Externalities  6. How Social and Ecological Costs Have Been Externalized  7. Who Pays?: A Geography of Costs  8. Secure Flows, Optimized Networks  Part IV: Conclusions: State Legitimacy and the Public Good  9. Infrastructures and Spectacles of the Global  10. Arguments of False Necessity: Discontinuities and Potential Futures

Biography

Boris Vormann is a lecturer in political science at Freie Universität’s John-F.-Kennedy Institute and associated researcher at the Université du Québec à Montréal.

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