ISBN10: 0198744013, ISBN13: 9780198744016, [publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford] Hardcover Hardcover. The re-emergence of the city from the long shadow of the state in the late-twentieth century was facilitated by the state itself. The unprecedented size and scale of today's global cities and mega cities owe their conditions of possibility to a fundamental shift in the character of political order at the level of the international system. This book argues that we must understand the rise of the global city as part of a wider process of the transformation ofinternational political order, and of the character of international society.Global cities are an inscription of the ideals of a market society in space, constructed and defended at thelevel of international society. They embody the ascendance of a set of liberal principles at a certain moment in history - a moment related to the hegemonic status of leading states in the second half of the twentieth century, and the ability of those states to shape international norms. But the evolution of these urban forms has also reflected the tendency for deregulated markets to generate inequality and polarisation: these features are also inscribed in the spaces of global cities. Globalcities focus and amplify the tensions and contradictions within the contemporary international system, and become key strategic sites for struggles over social justice and the character of politicallife in the twenty-first century. ...
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ISBN10: 0198744013, ISBN13: 9780198744016, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Hardcover
[Bayonne, NJ, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2017]
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Oxford University Press 2017 First Edition Hardcover New in New jacket Size: 9x0x6; Dark blue hardback with gilt lettered spine, complete with original dustjacket. In new condition: firm and square with strong joints, no bumps, no rubs. Contents are crisp, tight and clean; no pen-marks. Thus a very nice copy that looks and feels unread, now offered for sale at a very reasonable price.

ISBN10: 0198744013, ISBN13: 9780198744016, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Hardcover Book is in NEW condition.
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ISBN10: 0198744013, ISBN13: 9780198744016, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Hardcover First Edition Dark blue hardback with gilt lettered spine, complete with original dustjacket. In new condition: firm and square with strong joints, no bumps, no rubs. Contents are crisp, tight and clean; no pen-marks. Thus a very nice copy that looks and feels unread, now offered for sale at a very reasonable price.
[Cheltenham, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2017]