Rethinking Global Urbanism

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Rethinking Global Urbanism is written by Xiangming Chen and published by Routledge. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1136309438 (ISBN 10) and 9781136309434 (ISBN 13).

Arguing that the focus in global urban studies on cities such as New York, London, Tokyo in the global North, Mexico City and Shanghai in the developing world, and other major nodes of the world economy, has skewed the concept of the global city toward economics, this volume gathers a diverse group of contributors to focus on smaller and less economically dominant cities. It highlights other important and relatively ignored themes such as cultural globalization, alternative geographies of the global, and the influence of deeper urban histories (particularly those relating to colonialism) in order to advance an alternative view of the global city.