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New Regional Development Paradigms Volume 1, Globalization and the New Regional Development
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Asfaw Kumssa, Terry G. McGee, ed.
ISBN: 0-313-31765-8
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-31765-1
256 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 8/30/2001
List Price: $87.95 (UK Sterling Price: £60.95)
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Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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Description: The era of globalization is creating profound changes in global relationships, changes that are manifest at international, regional, national, and sub-national levels, making traditional regional development policy obsolete and irrelevant. Traditional policy needs to be redefined and reconstructed so it can capture and articulate emerging regional trends and issues. The first of four volumes based mainly on Global Forum on Regional Development Policy organized by the United Nations Centre for Regional Development in Nagoya, Japan, this book presents a broad theoretical and trend analysis of globalization and its effects on the theory and practice of regional development. The book lays out the major components that merit consideration if there is to be new regional planning in this millennium.

While contributors to the volume do not agree on the effects of globalization on economic growth, there is a consensus in the volume that globalization presents a challenge to conventional development theories. The challenge for regional planners is to examine the impact and implications of recent structural changes on regional development planning and come up with viable and pragmatic regional development strategies. This volume begins to meet that challenge by laying out the major components that merit consideration. The following volumes will present detailed case studies of current regional planning practices, focusing largely on developing countries.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction by Terry G. McGee and Asfaw Kumssa
    Globalization and the Current State of Regional Planning and Theory
    Territorial Development and the Construction of Synergetic Capital: A Contribution to the Discussion on Intangibility of Development by Sergio Boisier
    Urban and Regional Policy after the Era of Naïve Globalism by Mike Douglass
    The Policy Challenges of Globalization for Developing Countries by Asfaw Kumssa
    Rethinking Regional Policy in an Era of Rapid Urbanization and Volatile Globalization by Terry G. McGee
    Spatial and Environmental Effects of Globalization
    Globalization, World City Formation, the Functional System and Urban Sustainability in the Asia Pacific by Fuchen Lo and Peter J. Marcotullio
    From Corridors to Intercity Networks--The Role of Emerging Urban Systems in Building Regional Networks in Northeast Asia by Terry G. McGee, Xiaomin Pang, and Dong Ho Shin
    Globalization and Environmental Resistance Politics by James H. Mittleman
    Local Initiatives in Regional Development and Global Transformation within the Japanese Orbit by Yasuo Miyakawa
    Losing Control? The State and the New Geography of Power by Saskia Sassen
    Globalization and Regional Transformation in Pacific Asia by Yue-man Yeung
    Bibliography
About the Author: ASFAW KUMSSA is Coordinator of the United Nations Centre for Regional Africa Office in Nairobi.

TERRY G. MCGEE is Professor at the Institute of Asian Research, University of British Columbia.
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