Japanese management consultant Kenichi Ohmae thoughtfully explores how and why specific city-regions may make. The first includes the three short plenary addresses. Introduction: Global Politics and the Making of Global City Regions Chapter 2. This book presents a highly original and multifaceted review of. Enter the email address you signed up with and well email you a reset link. The essays, by 25 mostly internationally-recognized scholars, are grouped into eight subsets. As globalization intensifies, these city-regions come to pose many new questions and problems. The central thesis is that a general system of global city-regions is emerging and, in the process, often traditional policy problems of urban life like income inequality have been dramatically exacerbated. The central issue to be explored is the stressful impact of a 'new global city-centric capitalism' in transforming local political, social and economic organization and mobilization. Global city-regions, those phenomena which used to be known as 'world cities,' are now defined as a new regionalism, sub-national regional social formations, or "dense nodes of human labor and communal life." To all these authors, place remains important. Geographer Allen Scott is that school's director for the Center for Globalization and Policy Research. proponents of the new city-regionalism posit how global city-regions are superseding national economies as the fundamental unit of capitalist development a postulation which is doing - much to push claims of an advancing city-regional world (Scott 2001a Ohmae 2001 cf. This impressive compilation is an edited collection of papers presented to an international conference on global city-regions hosted by the School of Public Policy and Social Research at UCLA in October, 1999. (ed) Global City-Regions: Trends, Theory, Policy.
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