How to Build a Global City: Recognizing the Symbolic Power of a Global Urban Imagination

by Michele Acuto

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In How to Build a Global City, Michele Acuto considers the rise of a new generation of global cities, Singapore, Sydney and Dubai, and the power that this idea had in their ascent, in order to analyze the general relationship between global city theory and its urban public policy practice.

The global city is often invoked in theory and practice as an ideal model of development and a logic of internationalization...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1501761307

ISBN13:9781501761300

Release Date:January 2022

Publisher:Cornell University Press

Length:252 Pages

Weight:0.82 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

Related Subjects

Political Science Politics & Social Sciences Social Science Social Sciences

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