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Global Cities, Governance and Diplomacy

The Urban Link

By: Michele Acuto

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Global Cities, Governance and Diplomacy

The Urban Link

By: Michele Acuto

This book illustrates the importance of global cities for world politics and highlights the diplomatic connections between cities and global governance. While there is a growing body of literature concerned with explaining the transformations of the international order, little theorisation has taken into account the key metropolises of our time as elements of these revolutions. The volume seeks to fill this gap by demonstrating how global cities have a pervasive agency in contemporary global governance. The book argues that looking at global cities can bring about three fundamental advantages on traditional IR paradigms. First, it facilitates an eclectic turn towards more nuanced analyses of world politics. Second, it widens the horizon of the discipline through a multiscalar image of global governance. Third, it underscores how global cities have a strategic diplomatic positioning when it comes to core contemporary challenges such as climate change. This book will be of much interest to students of urban studies, global governance, diplomacy and international relations in general.

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1135105227

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Leading Cities

A Global Review of City Leadership

By: Elizabeth Rapoport,Michele Acuto,Leonora Grcheva

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Leading Cities

A Global Review of City Leadership

By: Elizabeth Rapoport,Michele Acuto,Leonora Grcheva

Leading Cities is a global review of the state of city leadership and urban governance today. Drawing on research into 202 cities in 100 countries, the book provides a broad, international evidence base grounded in the experiences of all types of cities. It offers a scholarly but also practical assessment of how cities are led, what challenges their leaders face, and the ways in which this leadership is increasingly connected to global affairs. Arguing that effective leadership is not just something created by an individual, Elizabeth Rapoport, Michele Acuto and Leonora Grcheva focus on three elements of city leadership: leaders, the structures and institutions that underpin them, and the tools used to drive change. Each of these elements are examined in turn, as are the major urban policy issues that leaders confront today on the ground. The book also takes a deep dive into one particular example of tool or instrument of city leadership – the strategic urban plan. Leading Cities provides a much-needed overview and introduction to the theory and practice of city leadership, and a starting point for future research on, and evaluation of, city leadership and its practice around the world.

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UCL Press

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1787355454

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How to Build a Global City

Recognizing the Symbolic Power of a Global Urban Imagination

By: Michele Acuto

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How to Build a Global City

Recognizing the Symbolic Power of a Global Urban Imagination

By: Michele Acuto

In How to Build a Global City, Michele Acuto considers the rise of a new generation of so-called global cities—Singapore, Sydney, and Dubai—and the power that this concept 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 for cities the world over. But the global city also creates deep social polarization and challenges how much local planning can achieve in a world economy. Presenting a unique elite ethnography in Singapore, Sydney, and Dubai, Acuto discusses the global urban discourses, aspirations, and strategies vital to the planning and management of such metropolitan growth. The global city, he shows, is not one single idea, but a complex of ways to imagine a place to be global and aspirations to make it so, often deeply steeped in politics. His resulting book is a call to reconcile proponents and critics of the global city toward a more explicit engagement with the politics of this global urban imagination.

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Cornell University Press

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1501759728

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Managing Cities at Night

A Practitioner Guide to the Urban Governance of the Night-Time Economy

By: Acuto, Michele,Seijas, Andreina

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Managing Cities at Night

A Practitioner Guide to the Urban Governance of the Night-Time Economy

By: Acuto, Michele,Seijas, Andreina

This accessible guide provides a stimulating analysis of the governance of the night-time economy in cities for practitioners and newcomers alike. Drawing on a wide range of case studies of after dark activity in cities around the world, it reviews labour, environmental services, healthcare, the role of leaders including night mayors, managers and commissioners, and the influence of both public and private sectors. Offering invaluable insights for the future of night-time governance during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond, this book deepens our understanding of the benefits, challenges and impacts of a neglected aspect of the economy.

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Policy Press

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1529218292

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Shakespeare and the Italian Renaissance

Appropriation, Transformation, Opposition

By: Michele Marrapodi

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Shakespeare and the Italian Renaissance

Appropriation, Transformation, Opposition

By: Michele Marrapodi

Shakespeare and the Italian Renaissance investigates the works of Shakespeare and his fellow dramatists from within the context of the European Renaissance and, more specifically, from within the context of Italian cultural, dramatic, and literary traditions, with reference to the impact and influence of classical, coeval, and contemporary culture. In contrast to previous studies, the critical perspectives pursued in this volume’s tripartite organization take into account a wider European intertextual dimension and, above all, an ideological interpretation of the 'aesthetics' or 'politics' of intertextuality. Contributors perceive the presence of the Italian world in early modern England not as a traditional treasure trove of influence and imitation, but as a potential cultural force, consonant with complex processes of appropriation, transformation, and ideological opposition through a continuous dialectical interchange of compliance and subversion.

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1317056442

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Searching for Japan

20th Century Italy’s Fascination with Japanese Culture

By: Michele Monserrati

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Searching for Japan

20th Century Italy’s Fascination with Japanese Culture

By: Michele Monserrati

This book pursues the specific case of Italian travel narratives in the Far East, through a focus on the experience of Japan in works by writers who visited the Land of the Rising Sun beginning in the Meiji period (1868-1912) and during the concomitant opening of Japan’s relations with the West. Drawing from the fields of Postcolonial and Transnational Studies, analysis of these texts explores one central question: what does it mean to imagine Japanese culture as contributing to Italian culture? Each author shares in common an attempt to disrupt ideas about dichotomies and unbalanced power relationships between East and West. Proposing the notion of ‘relational Orientalism,’ this book suggests that Italian travelogues to Japan, in many cases, pursued the goal of building imaginary transnational communities, predicated on commonalities and integration, by claiming what they perceived as ‘Oriental’ as their own. In contrast with a long history of Western representations of Japan as inferior and irrational, Searching for Japan identifies a positive overarching attitude toward the Far East country in modern Italian culture. Expanding the horizon of Italian transnational networks, normally situated within the Southern European region, this book reinstates the existence of an alternative Euro-Asian axis, operating across Italian history.

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Liverpool University Press

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1789625173

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How to Build a Global City

Recognizing the Symbolic Power of a Global Urban Imagination

By: Michele Acuto

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Recognizing the Symbolic Power of a Global Urban Imagination

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Global Cities, Governance and Diplomacy

The Urban Link

By: Michele Acuto

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The Urban Link

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Leading Cities

A Global Review of City Leadership

By: Elizabeth Rapoport,Michele Acuto,Leonora Grcheva

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A Global Review of City Leadership

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Leading Cities

A Global Review of City Leadership

By: Elizabeth Rapoport,Michele Acuto,Leonora Grcheva

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Leading Cities

A Global Review of City Leadership

By: Elizabeth Rapoport,Michele Acuto,Leonora Grcheva

Leading Cities is a global review of the state of city leadership and urban governance today. Drawing on research into 202 cities in 100 countries, the book provides a broad, international evidence base grounded in the experiences of all types of cities. It offers a scholarly but also practical assessment of how cities are led, what challenges their leaders face, and the ways in which this leadership is increasingly connected to global affairs.Arguing that effective leadership is not just something created by an individual, Elizabeth Rapoport, Michele Acuto and Leonora Grcheva focus on three elements of city leadership: leaders, the structures and institutions that underpin them, and the tools used to drive change. Each of these elements are examined in turn, as are the major urban policy issues that leaders confront today on the ground. The book also takes a deep dive into one particular example of tool or instrument of city leadership - the strategic urban plan.

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Global City Challenges

Debating a Concept, Improving the Practice

By: M. Acuto,W. Steele

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Global City Challenges

Debating a Concept, Improving the Practice

By: M. Acuto,W. Steele

The contributors illustrate what twin analytical and practical challenges emerge from juxtaposing cultural, economic, historical, postcolonial, virtual, architectural, literary, security and political stances to the concept of the 'global city'.

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Springer

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1137286873

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Managing Cities at Night

A Practitioner Guide to the Urban Governance of the Night-Time Economy

By: Acuto, Michele,Seijas, Andreina

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A Practitioner Guide to the Urban Governance of the Night-Time Economy

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Book's by Michele Acuto

Global Cities, Governance and Diplomacy

Global Cities, Governance and Diplomacy

Leading Cities

Leading Cities

How to Build a Global City

How to Build a Global City

Managing Cities at Night

Managing Cities at Night

Shakespeare and the Italian Renaissance

Shakespeare and the Italian Renaissance

Searching for Japan

Searching for Japan

How to Build a Global City

How to Build a Global City

Global Cities, Governance and Diplomacy

Global Cities, Governance and Diplomacy

Leading Cities

Leading Cities

Leading Cities

Leading Cities

Global City Challenges

Global City Challenges

Managing Cities at Night

Managing Cities at Night

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