How to Build a Global City: Recognizing the Symbolic Power of a Global Urban Imagination

by Michele Acuto

Book Overview

In How to Build a Global City, Michele Acuto considers the rise of a new generation of global cities, Singapore, Sydney and Dubai, and the power that this idea had in their ascent, in order to analyze the general relationship between global city theory and its urban public policy practice.

The global city is often invoked in theory and practice as an ideal model of development and a logic of internationalization...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501761307
• ISBN13: 9781501761300
• Release Date: January 2022
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher