Global Cities, Local Streets: Everyday Diversity from New York to Shanghai

by Sharon Zukin, Philip Kasinitz, Xiangming Chen

Book Overview

Global Cities, Local Streets: Everyday Diversity from New York to Shanghai, a cutting-edge text/ethnography, reports on the rapidly expanding field of global, urban studies through a unique pairing of six teams of urban researchers from around the world. The authors present shopping streets from each city - New York, Shanghai, Amsterdam, Berlin, Toronto, and Tokyo - how they have changed over the years, and how they illustrate globalization embedded...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138023930
• ISBN13: 9781138023932
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"