Global Port Cities in North America: Urbanization Processes and Global Production Networks

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Boris Vormann

Global Port Cities in North America

Urbanization Processes and Global Production Networks

Boris Vormann

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English

Routledge
16 December 2014

Globalization; Urban communities; Human geography

Series: Routledge Advances in Geography

As the material anchors of globalization, North America’s global port cities channel flows of commodities, capital, and tourists. This book explores how economic globalization processes have shaped these cities' political institutions, social structures, and urban identities since the mid-1970s. Although the impacts of financialization on global cities have been widely discussed, it is curious that how the global integration of commodity chains actually happens spatially — creating a quantitatively new, global organization of production, distribution, and consumption processes — remains understudied. The book uses New York City, Los Angeles, Vancouver, and Montreal as case studies of how once-redundant spaces have been reorganized, and crucially, reinterpreted, so as to accommodate new flows of goods and people — and how, in these processes, social, environmental, and security costs of global production networks have been shifted to the public.

By: Boris Vormann
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Volume: 13
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 498g
ISBN: 9781138814028
ISBN 10: 1138814024
Series: Routledge Advances in Geography
Pages: 248
Publication Date: 16 December 2014
Audience: College/higher education , Primary , A / AS level
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Boris Vormann is a lecturer in political science at Freie Universität’s John-F.-Kennedy Institute and associated researcher at the Université du Québec à Montréal.