Global Cities, Local Streets : Everyday Diversity From New York to Shanghai

Global Cities, Local Streets: Everyday Diversity from New York to Shanghai, a cutting-edge text/ethnography, reports on the rapidly expanding field of global, urban studies through a unique pairing of six teams of urban researchers from around the world. The authors present shopping streets from each city – New York, Shanghai, Amsterdam, Berlin, Toronto, and Tokyo – how they have changed over the years, and how they illustrate globalization embedded in local communities. This is an ideal addition to courses in urbanization, consumption, and globalization.. The book’s companion website, www.globalcitieslocalstreets.org, has additional videos, images, and maps, alongside a forum where students and instructors can post their own shopping street experiences. Cover Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents List of Figures List of Tables 1 Spaces of Everyday Diversity: The Patchwork Ecosystem of Local Shopping Streets 2 From “Ghetto” to Global: Two Neighborhood Shopping Streets in New York City 3 Commercial Development from Below: The Resilience of Local Shops in Shanghai 4 From Greengrocers to Cafés: Producing Social Diversity in Amsterdam 5 Life and Death of the Great Regeneration Vision: Diversity, Decay, and Upgrading in Berlin’s Ordinary Shopping Streets 6 Toronto’s Changing Neighborhoods: Gentrification of Shopping Streets 7 Tokyo’s “Living” Shopping Streets: The Paradox of Globalized Authenticity 8 Local Shops, Global Streets Research Note: How to Put a Transnational Project Together Brief Biographies of Research Partners Index