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The Global Edge

Miami in the Twenty-First Century

By: Prof. Alejandro Portes,Ariel C. Armony

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The Global Edge

Miami in the Twenty-First Century

By: Prof. Alejandro Portes,Ariel C. Armony

Over the last quarter century, no other city like Miami has rapidly transformed into a global city. The Global Edge charts the social tensions and unexpected consequences of this remarkable process of change. Acting as a follow-up to the highly successful City on the Edge, The Global Edge examines Miami in the context of globalization and scrutinizes its newfound place as a major international city. Written by two well-known scholars in the field, the book examines Miami’s rise as a finance and banking center and the simultaneous emergence of a highly diverse but contentious ethnic mosaic. The Global Edge serves as a case study of Miami’s present cultural, economic, and political transformation, and describes how its future course can provide key lessons for other metropolitan areas throughout the world.

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Univ of California Press

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0520969618

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9780520969612

Emerging Global Cities

Origin, Structure, and Significance

By: Alejandro Portes,Ariel C. Armony

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Emerging Global Cities

Origin, Structure, and Significance

By: Alejandro Portes,Ariel C. Armony

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.

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292

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Columbia University Press

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0231555873

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9780231555876

The Dubious Link

Civic Engagement and Democratization

By: Ariel Armony

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The Dubious Link

Civic Engagement and Democratization

By: Ariel Armony

This text examines the dark side of civil society - the cases in which the participation of average citizens leads to undemocratic results. It looks at associational life in pre-Nazi Germany, anti-desegregation movements in the United States and organizations for rights in democratic Argentina.

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Stanford University Press

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0804767289

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9780804767286

The Dubious Link

Civic Engagement and Democratization

By: Ariel Armony

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Civic Engagement and Democratization

By: Ariel Armony

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