Globalization and Community
Cities throughout the world are struggling with large-scale economic changes and their social effects: immigration, intensified demographic inequalities, multiscalar tensions, and divisive politics revolving around race, ethnicity, gender, and, increasingly, sustainability. The Globalization and Community series offers a social science perspective on the cultural, spatial, economic, and social impacts of the processes of globalization on urban areas. Books in the series feature distinctive theoretical approaches, innovative methodologies, and insightful views on emerging questions of globalization and community.
Books in this Series
Betting on Macau
A comprehensive look into how Macau’s recent decades of gambling-related growth produced one of the wealthiest territories on the planet
Showroom City
A unique and engaging account of local urban decision-making within the globalizing world
The End of the Village
How China’s expansive new era of urbanization threatens to undermine the foundations of rural life
Private Metropolis
Examines the complex ecology of quasi-public and privatized institutions that mobilize and administer many of the political, administrative, and fiscal resources of today’s metropolitan regions
The Migrant’s Paradox
Connects global migration with urban marginalization, exploring how “race” maps onto place across the globe, state, and street
Chasing World-Class Urbanism
Questions increasingly dominant urban planning orthodoxies and whether they truly serve everyday city dwellers
Gringolandia
A telling look at today’s “reverse” migration of white, middle-class expats from north to south, through the lens of one South American city
Renew Orleans?
Urban development after disaster, the fading of black political clout, and the onset of gentrification
Urban Policy in the Time of Obama
How presidential policies have served—or failed to serve—America’s cities
The Servant Class City
Exposes a dark side of the sunny city that has enticed workers and tourists for decades
The Fragmented Politics of Urban Preservation
Reveals the political underpinnings of urban preservation
Turkish Berlin
A revealing account of how immigrants create, cope with, and change urban neighborhoods
Does Local Government Matter?
Asks and answers hard questions about the consequences of local government programs for democracy
Seeking Spatial Justice
An innovative new way of understanding and changing the unjust geographies in which we live
A World of Gangs
From L.A. to Lagos, Port-au-Prince to Paris—a provocative analysis of the global proliferation of street gangs
Remaking New York
Uses New York City to discuss the ways that policy has mismanaged the effects of globalization
A Political Space
An innovative look at the convergence of global trends and local struggles in this out-of-the-way place.
City Requiem, Calcutta
Uses Calcutta as a site for the exploration of persistent structures of deprivation and want.
Landscapes of Urban Memory
A rich analysis of religion, civic life, and global transformation in India.
Fin de Millénaire Budapest
Considers what this central European metropolis tells us about the changing nature of urban life.
Selling the Lower East Side
Tracks the shifting views of the Lower East Side from ghetto to desirable urban niche.
