Pathways to global city formation: a view from the developmental city-state of Singapore
| العنوان: | Pathways to global city formation: a view from the developmental city-state of Singapore |
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| المؤلفون: | Henry Wai-chung Yeung, Kris Olds |
| المصدر: | Review of International Political Economy. 11:489-521 |
| بيانات النشر: | Informa UK Limited, 2004. |
| سنة النشر: | 2004 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Economics and Econometrics, Hegemony, Sociology and Political Science, media_common.quotation_subject, Corporate governance, City-state, Context (language use), Empirical research, State (polity), Global city, Developmental state, Political Science and International Relations, Development economics, Economic geography, Sociology, media_common |
| الوصف: | The main aim of this paper is to offer a constructive critique of the dominant (indeed hegemonic) global city/world city discourse. This is a discourse that is overly dependent upon a theoreticallyglobalistperspective derived out of limited empirical studies. Moreover, this is a discourse that focuses relatively too much upon (a) the characteristics of global/world cities and (b) the processes creating global/world cities versus (b) and (c) governance issues and implications. Consequently there remain many unanswered questions about how global cities have‘come into being’, and what is the role of the state in intentionally devising pathways to global city formation. In such a conceptual context, we tease out the main contours of three forms of global cities–hyper global cities; emerging global cities; and global city-states–in emphasizing the need to consider differential and dynamic developmental pathways. Drawing upon the case of Singapore, we then analyse the unique nature of the global city-state, esp... |
| تدمد: | 1466-4526 0969-2290 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::82821c89ea6e1341cce7f20015813e1f https://doi.org/10.1080/0969229042000252873 |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsair.doi...........82821c89ea6e1341cce7f20015813e1f |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
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