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Another Global City
Historical Explorations into the Transnational Municipal Moment, 1850–2000
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Another Global City
Historical Explorations into the Transnational Municipal Moment, 1850–2000
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This collection uses the transnational activities of municipal urban governments to historicize the origins and development of the global city, focusing on how urban problems were addressed with concepts that emerged from the "world in between" nations and cities.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Another Global CityHistorical Explorations into the TransnationalMunicipal Moment, 1850–2000
- Contents
- Preface
- Notes on the Contributors
- CHAPTER 1 IntroductionGlobal City, Take 2:A View from Urban History
- CHAPTER 2 In the Precincts of the Global CityThe Transnational Network of Municipal Affairsin Melbourne, Australia, at the End of theNineteenth Century
- CHAPTER 3 Mediterranean ConnectionsThe Circulation of Municipal Knowledgeand Practices during the Ottoman Reforms,c.1830–1910
- CHAPTER 4 Pacific Crossings?Urban Progressivism in Modern Japan
- CHAPTER 5 A City in the World of CitiesLyon, France; Municipal Associations as PoliticalResources in the Twentieth Century
- CHAPTER 6 Selling the City-StatePlanning and Housing in Singapore,1945–1990
- CHAPTER 7 Transnational Municipalism ina Europe of Second CitiesRebuilding Birmingham withMunicipal Networks
- CHAPTER 8 Mayor Edward I. Koch andNew York’s Municipal Foreign Policy,1977–1990
- CHAPTER 9 The Municipal Making ofTransnational NetworksA Case Study of Montreal’sTwinning with Shanghai
- CHAPTER 10 Latin American Municipalities inTransnational NetworksReforming Municipal Government inRosario, Argentina, and Montevideo, Uruguay,in the 1990s
- CONCLUSION Lost in Translation?Mapping, Molding, and Managing theTransnational Municipal Moment
- EPILOGUE Cities, Competition, and CooperationProspect Meets Retrospect
- Notes
- Index