TY - GEN T1 - Emerging global cities : origin, structure, and significance A1 - Portes, Alejandro, 1944- A1 - Armony, Ariel C. LA - English PP - New York PB - Columbia University Press YR - 2023 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1349277109 AB - 'Certain cities-most famously New York, London, and Tokyo-have been identified as "global cities," whose function in the world economy transcends national borders. Without the same fanfare, formerly peripheral and secondary cities have been growing in importance, emerging as global cities in their own right. The striking similarity of the skylines of Dubai, Miami, and Singapore is no coincidence: despite following different historical paths, all three have achieved newfound prominence through parallel trends. In this groundbreaking book, Alejandro Portes and Ariel C. Armony demonstrate how the rapid and unexpected rise of these three cities recasts global urban studies. They identify the constellation of factors that allow certain urban places to become "emerging global cities"-centers of commerce, finance, art, and culture for entire regions. The book traces the transformations of Dubai, Miami, and Singapore, identifying key features common to these emerging global cities. It contrasts them with "global hopefuls," cities that, at one point or another, aspired to become global, and analyzes how Hong Kong is threatened with the loss of this status. Portes and Armony highlight the importance of climate change to the prospects of emerging global cities, showing how the same economic system that propelled their rise now imperils their future. Emerging Global Cities provides a powerful new framework for understanding the role of peripheral cities in the world economy and how they compete for and sometimes achieve global standing"-- CN - HT166 .P6383 2023 SN - 0231555873 SN - 9780231555876 SN - 9780231205160 SN - 0231205163 SN - 9780231205177 SN - 0231205171 KW - Megacities. KW - Urbanization. KW - City planning. KW - MeĢgalopoles. KW - Urbanisation. KW - megalopolises. KW - urbanization. KW - ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning KW - City planning KW - Megacities KW - Urbanization ER -