Making cities global : the transnational turn in urban history /
In recent decades, hundreds of millions of people across the world have moved from rural areas to metropolitan regions, some of them crossing national borders on the way. While urbanization and globalization are proceeding with an intensity that seems unprecedented, these are only the most recent it...
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- Silicon dreams : states, markets, and the transnational high-tech suburb / Margaret O'Mara
- Homeownership and social welfare in the Americas : Ciudad Kennedy as a midcentury crossroads / Amy C. Offner
- Building the alliance for progress : local and transnational encounters in a low-income housing program in Rio de Janeiro, 1962-67 / Leandro Benmergui
- Slum clearance as a transnational process in globalizing Manila / Nancy H. Kwak
- Crossing boundaries : the global exchange of planning ideas / Carola Hein
- Condos in the mall : suburban transnational typological transformations in Markham, Ontario / Erica Allen-Kim
- Requiem for a barrio : race, space, and gentrification in southern California / Matthew J. García
- Transnational performances in Chicago's Independence Day parade / Arijit Sen
- Transnational urban meanings : the passage of "suburb" to India and its rough reception / Richard Harris
- Suburbanization and urban practice in India / Nikhil Rao
- Will the transnational city be digitized? The dialectics of diversified spatial media and expanded spatial scopes / Carl H. Nightingale.