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Seoul, as one of Asia's rising global cities, has been a place
where enormous changes in politics, industry, and culture have
taken place over the last five decades. This book explores the new
urbanism in Seoul from the perspective of global political economy,
focusing on the contexts in which the city has witnessed the
transformation of its population structure, such as the rise of the
global urban middle class and the city's increased nodal function
in commodity chains. The burgeoning signs of Seoul's status as a
global city are discussed in terms of transnational tourism and the
frequency of study abroad, the immigrant community, and
cross-border cultural flows. Examining the labour structures within
the city, economic growth policy, the role of advanced information
technology, and neoliberal urban development, the authors also
examine the local response in the city to its emerging status. A
study of the development of the Korean capital and its deep
embeddedness in the world economy, Seoul, Korea's Global City will
appeal to scholars of sociology, geography and economics with
interests in political economy, urban studies and Asian studies.
Seoul, as one of Asia's rising global cities, has been a place
where enormous changes in politics, industry, and culture have
taken place over the last five decades. This book explores the new
urbanism in Seoul from the perspective of global political economy,
focusing on the contexts in which the city has witnessed the
transformation of its population structure, such as the rise of the
global urban middle class and the city's increased nodal function
in commodity chains. The burgeoning signs of Seoul's status as a
global city are discussed in terms of transnational tourism and the
frequency of study abroad, the immigrant community, and
cross-border cultural flows. Examining the labour structures within
the city, economic growth policy, the role of advanced information
technology, and neoliberal urban development, the authors also
examine the local response in the city to its emerging status. A
study of the development of the Korean capital and its deep
embeddedness in the world economy, Seoul, Korea's Global City will
appeal to scholars of sociology, geography and economics with
interests in political economy, urban studies and Asian studies.
To date, most interpretations of urbanization have focused on the
internal dynamics of regions or nations, or at best on narrow
relations of international dependency. This text recognizes a
complementary world-system process theory. The intent is not to
argue that world-system processes totally determine urban change,
but rather that patterns of urbanization within regions cannot be
adequately understood without at least taking global political
economic processes into account.
The book begins with a discussion of how a world-system theory of
urbanization differs from other approaches. This is followed by a
discussion of theoretical issues involved in the world-system
approach. The final section of the book consists of empirical
studies which use this theoretical perspective to shed light on
urbanization patterns either within selected countries or globally.
The main themes which are examined include urban primacy and city
systems, urban labor force patterns, over-urbanization, and rates
or levels of urban concentration.
This book contains a review of urbanization literature and
discussion concerning the informal labor sector in peripheral
areas, core-peripheral relations at the global level, urban primacy
theory and its critique, and recent patterns of labor force
structure in the world economy. The effects of the mobility of
capital and labor on U.S. cities are reviewed and a comparison
between the urban systems of South Korea and the Philippines is
made. The authors present data on city-size hierarchy at the world
level for the past 1000 years and find that changes in the world
city-size distribution correspond to cycles in the world system.
They conclude that regional studiesand global analyses support
interpretations of urbanization using the world-system
paradigm.
From the Preface:
The processes of urbanization have long been regarded as integral
to socioeconomic development. However, scholarly opinion about
global urban patterns is divided, ranging from claims that the
growth of urban population in a given region is an inevitable
concomitant of modernization to assertions that too-rapid urban
growth, especially in a region's largest city, may actually impede
balanced development. Despite this diversity of opinion, observers
agree that there is tremendous global unevenness in patterns of
urbanization.
Our understanding of uneven development has been transformed in
recent years by the emergence of the world-system perspective,
which, however, has until now illuminated aspects of dependency and
development other than urbanization. The purpose of this book is to
use the world-system paradigm to systematically interpret processes
of urbanization. The book is directed toward students of
urbanization and development who may approach their subject from a
variety of academic disciplines, including anthropology, political
economy, geography, history, political science, and sociology.
The city is the principal site through which globalisation occurs.
This is reflected in the various social, economic, and political
changes that have not only added emphasis to dynamics of cities,
but have also multiplied the contradictions and tensions underlying
urban development. These eight volumes - available as one set or as
two four volume sets (Set One - Urban Studies - Economy / Set Two
Urban Studies Society) - are edited by Ronan Paddison, Editor of
Urban Studies, the key journal in the discipline. Each volume is in
turn edited by an acknowledged specialist. Together the eight
volumes will provide researchers with answers to the following
questions: " How do we theorize the city " Why do cities exist? "
How do we begin to understand the processes underlying the
structure and dynamism of cities? " How can state intervention
influence such processes positively? " How are cities governed? "
How should we cope intellectually with the uniqueness and
variability of cities?
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