Title:	Cities in Transition
Authors:	RITA SCHNEIDER-SLIWA
Keywords:	Transition
Issue Date:	2006
Publisher:	Springer
Description:	Aim of this book A large proportion of literature on this topic assumes that the above-mentioned development paths belong as it were to the natural pattern of life, and that global- isation will evolve in a similar way and with predominantly negative conse- quences for all cities affected. This book does not see globalisation as a process that either forces uniformity upon individual regions or cities and their political institutions, or imprints the newly created macro-cultural structural patterns onto local forms. Precisely because of local differences and developments, complex urban systems as such are not likely to experience identical trends and develop- ment patterns. There are too many factors which influence urban development (Fig. 1), and the context of these factors within each city is very different. Global- isation has not been able to override the agents, planners and motivators within politics, the economy and society that stand behind these forces. Neither can it replace economic activity, the state, politics in general, nor human activity. Thus in the era of globalisation, metropolitan development remains hypothetical: urban development can, but need not conform to the apparent laws of nature of global trends (Rieger & Leibfried 2001:75,76f.; Keohande & Nye 2000; Kapstein 2000).
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/54512
ISBN:	978-1-4020-3867-9
Appears in Collections:	Regional and Local Development Studies

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