ISBN: 9788131600610 - globalizing cities: inequality and segregation in developing countries (4 resultados)

Condición: New. pp. ix + 422 Figures, Illus., Maps.

Condición: New. pp. ix + 422 Acknowledgements.

Hardcover. Condición: New. ISBN:8131600610,432pp.

Hardcover. Condición: New. Contents Acknowledgements. 1. Introduction/R.S. Sandhu and Jasmeet Sandhu. I. Africa 2. Residential segregation in Nigerian cities/Patrick A. Edewor. 3. Neighbourhood segregation of the Nigerian Urban Spatial Structure security implication and consequences/Oyesiku O. Kayode. 4. Many degrees of separation coffee shops and social segregation in Cairo/Anouk de Koning. 5. Towards non polarized residential development in Botswana's urban areas/A.C. Mosha. 6. Desegregation deracialization or non racialism towards an appropriate conceptual framework for understanding transformation in post apartheid schooling in South Africa/Anand Singh. II. Asia 7. Mumbai Spatial Segregation in a Globalizing city/Ramola Naik Singru. 8. Us and Them We and They social segregation in a squatter settlement/Saraswati Haider. 9. So Dat (Land fever) in Hanoi ruralization of the urban space/Nghiem Lien Huong. 10. Urbanization and social segregation in Chinese cities under globalizing forces China's rapid urban transformation in question/On Kwok Lai. 11. The changing patterns of segregation and exclusion the case of Ankara/Deniz Altay and Asuman Turkum. 12. Global flows and new segregation in Istanbul how Cloudy class identities have crystallized in urban space/Hatice Kurtulus. III. Latin America 13. Marginality from myth to reality in the favelas of Rio De Janeiro 1969 2002/Janice E. Perlman. 14. Income distribution polarization in Mexican urban areas the effect of education/Mario M. Carrillo Huerta. Contributors. Towards the end of the twentieth century city reemerged as a unit of analysis and globalization as an important context for analyzing social transformation and dynamics shaping the society. A city is the site where micro and macro social processes and global and local contexts can be articulated and observed. Urbanologists and social scientists have so far focused on those cities which have been greatly benefited by globalization. A lot of literature has come about on the cities in the developed countries but cities in the developing countries have not been studied much. These cities are not global but globalizing cities. The present book anthologizes various aspects of segregation in globalizing cities of ten developing countries of Africa Asia and Latin America which have been differently affected by globalization. Social issues at stake may be common to the developing countries yet the global contexts may have different connotations and consequences in the local structures. The main objective of this anthology is to study the socio spatial segregation and inequalities that have emerged in such globalizing cities under the impact of globalization forces and local social structure. 422 pp. …