A Study on Globalizing Cities

Theoretical Frameworks and China's Modes

A Study on Globalizing Cities is the latest masterpiece by Zhou Zhenhua, a famous Chinese economist, who closely tracks the theoretical study of global cities and is actively engaged in the strategic research of Shanghai's development.

With rich empirical data and an in-depth analysis, this book is of great theoretical and practical significance. Different from studies on global cities by renowned western scholars, this book extends its perspective to globalizing cities. It explores a unique development model for China's globalizing cities by adopting a creative angle of observation and analytical methods. By criticizing that the traditional global city theory derives the logic relations of global cities directly from globalization, Mr Zhou puts forward the concept of globalization city, which is introduced as a new intermediate explanatory variable. More importantly, this book emphasizes that the building of global cities is not only dependent on the distribution of urban space and urban economic development but also on comprehensive construction of multiple structures and functions of cities.

Contents:

• Literature Review
• Globalization, Informatization, and the Change of the World City System
• Global City Networks and Their Nodes
• Regions of Global Cities: A New Spatial Structure
• Rise of Global Cities: Prerequisite and Positioning Strategic Target
• Path Dependence of Globalizing Cities
• Relations of Competition and Cooperation During the Rise of Global Cities
• Strategy Oriented by Flow Expansion and Its Development Mode
• Industrial Base of the Leading Service Economy
• Evolution of Spatial Structure of Globalizing Cities
• Creative Cities and Cultural Creativity
• Systemic Framework of City's Governing Structure

Readership: Undergraduates, graduates, academics, economists, urbanologists, sociologists, and municipal governors who are interested in globalization and China's urban development.
Key Features:

• The author is a famous Chinese economist. He is one of the earliest scholars in China, to study global cities
• The Chinese version of the book was awarded the first prize in the academic writings in Shanghai
• Different from previous studies on global cities by renowned western scholars, the book extends its perspective to globalizing cities, and explores how to build China's globalizing cities into global cities
• The book proposes a unique development model for China's globalizing cities