Globalization and Networked Societies: Urban-Regional Change in Pacific Asia - Couverture rigide

Yeung, Yue-man

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0824822374 ISBN 13 : 9780824822378

Editeur : University of Hawai'i Press, 2000

Synopsis

The world in the last two decades of the twentieth century fundamentally and radically changed at a speed and on a scale never before witnessed. The challenge posed at the beginning of the third millennium is enormous for governments and people the world over. Globalization, along with globalism, continues its unrelenting and accelerating march as it draws more countries, cities, and people closer into interdependent relationships. Globalization and Networked Societies attempts to tease out some of the salient elements of this process, especially as it has affected urban centers in Pacific Asia over the past twenty years. Globalization and rapid economic growth have transformed the region and its cities on varied spatial scales, bringing new opportunities and challenges for governments, the private sector, and individuals. All countries in Pacific Asia are covered in this work, with special attention given to Hong Kong and to China, a late bloomer in the Asia scene but nevertheless one that has experienced phenomenal growth and accelerated globalization in recent decades. The empirical analyses reveal the outcome, dilemmas, and meanings of globalization in the urban-regional scene.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Hawai'i Press
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0824822374
• ISBN 13: 9780824822378
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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