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The aim of this book is to understand the causes and consequences of new scales and forms of territorial restructuring in a steadily globalizing world by focusing on urban megaproject development. Contributions focus on the principal actors, institutions, and innovations that drive capitalist globalization, socio-economic and territorial restructuring, and global city formation by exploring the architectural design, planning, management, financing and impacts of urban megaprojects as well as their various socio-economic, political and cultural contexts. This is the first work on urban megaprojects to be global in scope, with chapters about Korea, Bilbao, Kuala Lumpur, Budapest, Milan, Abu Dhabi, New York, Paris, Sao Paulo, Beijing, Shanghai, Hamburg, Vienna, Detroit, Philadelphia, Stuttgart, Afghanistan and Mexico City. It is also the first work on the subject to include contributions from sociologists, planners, geographers and architects from top universities around the world, thus making it a truly multidisciplinary project.
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Table of contents
- FRONT COVER
- URBAN MEGAPROJECTS: A WORLDWIDE VIEW
- COPYRIGHT PAGE
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
- DEDICATION
- PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER 1 NEW TOWN DEVELOPMENTS IN KOREA: THEN AND NOW
- CHAPTER 2 THE ALLEGED BILBAO MIRACLE AND ITS DISCONTENTS
- CHAPTER 3 ENCOUNTERING KUALA LUMPUR THROUGH THE ''TRAVEL'' OF UMPs
- CHAPTER 4 THE PETTY POLITICS OF A MEGAPROJECT IN BUDAPEST
- CHAPTER 5 BRANDED MEGAPROJECTS AND FADING URBAN STRUCTURE IN CONTEMPORARY CITIES
- CHAPTER 6 URBAN MEGAPROJECTS AND LOCAL PLANNING FRAMEWORKS IN NEW YORK CITY, PARIS, AND SAO PAULO
- CHAPTER 7 THE ROLE OF ICONIC ARCHITECTURE IN GLOBALIZING URBAN MEGAPROJECTS
- CHAPTER 8 ''GLOBAL'' ARCHITECTURE AS A CONTRADICTORY SIGNIFIER: LESSONS FROM HAMBURG'S AND VIENNA'S URBAN MEGAPROJECTS
- CHAPTER 9 THE METASTASIZING MEGAPROJECT: URBAN DESIGN AND ''MONSTROUS MORAL HYBRIDS'' IN THE AMERICAN CITY
- CHAPTER 10 RAILWAY MEGAPROJECTS AS CATALYSTS FOR THE RE-MAKING OF POST-INDUSTRIAL CITIES? THE CASE OF STUTTGART 21 IN GERMANY
- CHAPTER 11 THE AFGHAN RING ROAD MEGAPROJECT: GLOBALIZATION MEETS CONFLICT
- CHAPTER 12 HOW TO DEFEAT AN URBAN MEGAPROJECT: LESSONS FROM MEXICO CITY'S AIRPORT CONTROVERSY
- KEY FINDINGS AND THEORETICAL IMPLICATIONS
- INDEX
- ABOUT THE AUTHORS