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Urban Megaprojects: A Worldwide View: 13
Author(s): Gerardo del Cerro Santamaria
- Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited
- Publication Date: 6 Jun. 2013
- Edition: Illustrated
- Language: English
- Print length: 400 pages
- ISBN-10: 1781905932
- ISBN-13: 9781781905937
Book Description
The aim of this book is to understand the causes and consequences of new scales and forms of territorial restructuring in a steadily globalizing world by focusing on urban megaproject development. Contributions focus on the principal actors, institutions, and innovations that drive capitalist globalization, socio-economic and territorial restructuring, and global city formation by exploring the architectural design, planning, management, financing and impacts of urban megaprojects as well as their various socio-economic, political and cultural contexts. This is the first work on urban megaprojects to be global in scope, with chapters about Korea, Bilbao, Kuala Lumpur, Budapest, Milan, Abu Dhabi, New York, Paris, Sao Paulo, Beijing, Shanghai, Hamburg, Vienna, Detroit, Philadelphia, Stuttgart, Afghanistan and Mexico City. It is also the first work on the subject to include contributions from sociologists, planners, geographers and architects from top universities around the world, thus making it a truly multidisciplinary project.
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About the Author
Gerardo del Cerro Santamaria teaches at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York City and has been a Visiting Professor in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT. Professor del Cerro Santamaria is the author of Bilbao. Basque Pathways to Globalization (London: Elsevier, 2007) as well as several book chapters and journal articles on the political economy of globalized urbanization.
