UID:
edocfu_9959227786302883
Format:
1 online resource (273 p.)
ISBN:
1-134-32630-0
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1-280-43570-4
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9786610435708
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0-203-00120-6
Series Statement:
Planning, history, and the environment series
Content:
Taipei's quest to become a global city is the key to its urban development. Globalizing Taipei looks at this ""Asian Dragon"", a major city in the South China Growth Triangle and a centre for transnational production, revealing how the development of this capital has received firm state support but is conditioned by international and domestic politics.The book is divided into four parts: economic and spatial restructuring, state and society realignment, social differentiation and cultural reorientation. Each analyzes the interaction of international, state and local politic
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Book Cover; Half Title; Series Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Glossary; Contributors; Introduction: Asian Dragons, South China Growth Triangle, Developmental Governance and Globalizing Taipei; 1. The Evolution of Economic Base: From Industrial City, Post-Industrial City to Interface City; 2. The Development of Economic Structure: Producer Services and Growth Restraints; 3. The Transformation of Spatial Structure: From a Monocentric to a Polycentric City; 4. Urban Politics and Spatial Development: The Emergence of Participatory Planning
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5. Provision for Collective Consumption: Housing Production Under Neoliberalism6. Domestic Politics in Urban Image Creation: Xinyi as the 'Manhattan of Taipei'; 7. Social Polarization and Income Inequality: Migration and Urban Labour Markets; 8. Daily Consumption in a Globalizing City: Food Markets at the Crossroads; 9. Modernization Ideoscape: Imaginative Geography and Aesthetic Landscape in Taipei Rapid Transit System; 10. Commentary on the Marginalized Society: The Films of Tsai Ming-Liang; Postscript: Current Dilemma and Future Uncertainty; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-75903-X
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-35451-X
Language:
English
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