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Urban Political Economy Beyond the 'Global City'

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  • Eugene J. McCann

    (Department of Geography, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada V5A 1S6, emccann@sfu.ca)

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This paper examines the relationship between urbanisation and globalisation beyond the so-called global cities that have been the focus of so much contemporary urban research. The paper argues that there is a problematic polarisation in urban studies between research on 'global' cities and work on presumably 'non-global' cities. The existing geographical literature on scale, place and uneven development offers a more complex and process-based view of contemporary urbanism. It allows the globalisation-urbanisation nexus to be studied in and through a diverse range of cities. This argument is developed via a case study of key moments in the economic development of Lexington, Kentucky, a city that, like most others, is forgotten or overlooked by global cities researchers.

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  • Eugene J. McCann, 2004. "Urban Political Economy Beyond the 'Global City'," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 41(12), pages 2315-2333, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:urbstu:v:41:y:2004:i:12:p:2315-2333
    DOI: 10.1080/00420980412331297555
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