Second cities : globalization and local politics in Manchester and Philadelphia

Second cities : globalization and local politics in Manchester and Philadelphia / Jerome I. Hodos.

Manchester, England, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, are what sociologist Jerome Hodos calls second cities - viable alternatives to well-known global cities such as London and New York. In Second Cities, Hodos considers how Manchester and Philadelphia have confronted problems of globalization over t...

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Main Author: Hodos, Jerome I. (Jerome Isaac), 1967-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, ©2011.
Subjects:
Cities and towns > England > Manchester > Case studies.
Urbanization > England > Manchester > Case studies.
Globalization > England > Manchester > Case studies.
Cities and towns > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > Case studies.
Urbanization > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > Case studies.
Globalization > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > Case studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > Urban.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Cities and towns
Globalization
Urbanization
England > Manchester
Pennsylvania > Philadelphia
Electronic book.
Case studies
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : globalization, urbanization, and the second city
  • The era of second city formation, 1770-1840
  • Second city economies
  • Migration patterns in second cities
  • Making global culture : ideas and innovation in second cities
  • Municipal foreign policy : planning for global integration
  • Identity and governance in the second city
  • A world of cities?

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