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Urban Problems--Private Solutions?: Globalising Cities in the South

Name: Urban Problems--Private Solutions?: Globalising Cities in the South
Author: Klaus Segbers
ISBN: 9780754643623

by Klaus Segbers, Simon Raiser, Krister Volkmann

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Overview

Globalization has wrought changes far beyond merely opening new international markets in both labor in demand. It has also required nations to change the ways in which they organize themselves socially, provide political governance, and provide for present and future generations of participants in the global economic system. In these 22 essays that come from a project organized by the Free University of Berlin, contributors examine how states are transferring aspects of governance to non-state agencies in response, creating a crisis in governance. They find that cities must balance competitiveness with internal viability, that cities must restructure economically and redistribute property rights, they must deregulate public services and decide if security is a public or private matter, and that they must now deal with public response because the public now constitutes human capital. The cities under study include Johannesburg, Mumbai, Sao Paulo, and Shanghai. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR