Another Global City : Historical Explorations Into the Transnational Municipal Moment, 1850–2000

this Collection Uses The Transnational Activities Of Municipal Urban Governments To Historicize The Origins And Development Of The Global City, Focusing On How Urban Problems Were Addressed With Concepts That Emerged From The World In Between Nations And Cities. Contents......Page 6 Preface......Page 8 Notes on the Contributors......Page 10 1 Introduction: Global City, Take 2: A View from Urban History......Page 12 2 In the Precincts of the Global City: The Transnational Network of Municipal Affairs in Melbourne, Australia, at the End of the Nineteenth Century......Page 30 3 Mediterranean Connections: The Circulation of Municipal Knowledge and Practices during the Ottoman Reforms, c.1830–1910......Page 46 4 Pacific Crossings? Urban Progressivism in Modern Japan......Page 62 5 A City in the World of Cities: Lyon, France; Municipal Associations as Political Resources in the Twentieth Century......Page 80 6 Selling the City-State: Planning and Housing in Singapore, 1945–1990......Page 96 7 Transnational Municipalism in a Europe of Second Cities: Rebuilding Birmingham with Municipal Networks......Page 112 8 Mayor Edward I. Koch and New York’s Municipal Foreign Policy, 1977–1990......Page 130 9 The Municipal Making of Transnational Networks: A Case Study of Montreal’s Twinning with Shanghai......Page 146 10 Latin American Municipalities in Transnational Networks: Reforming Municipal Government in Rosario, Argentina, and Montevideo, Uruguay, in the 1990s......Page 164 Conclusion: Lost in Translation? Mapping, Molding, and Managing the Transnational Municipal Moment......Page 184 Epilogue: Cities, Competition, and Cooperation: Prospect Meets Retrospect......Page 196 Notes......Page 206 B......Page 246 E......Page 247 I......Page 248 M......Page 249 O......Page 250 S......Page 251 U......Page 252 Y......Page 253 Scholars conventionally argue that global cities originated during the socio-economic transformations caused by globalization during the 1970s and 1980s. This volume provides a fresh perspective on these debates. Looking at urban municipal governments and the problems they have historically faced between 1850 and 2000, the book particularly focuses on the networks and connections formed by and between municipalities in different countries and continents. The contributors show how, through their extensive transnational journeys, urban municipal governments had a major impact on the modern world's capacity to identity its social problems and devise universal solutions Explores the origins and development of the global city. This title contains essays that provide a historical perspective to counter-balance the contemporary context of globalization studies. It argues that globalization was taking seed in the nature of relationships between cities before nation-states were ever formed