Cities and Crisis

Published in association with the International Sociological Association, this book explores financial, social and political crisis and how they affect urban experiences and so too urban theory.

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Kuniko Fujita has taught industrial sociology, urban sociology and globalization at Michigan State University, Japanese and comparative political economy at the National University of Singapore, and international division of labor at Hiroshima University. She also worked with the World Bank and is the past president (2006-2010) of the ISA group Urban and Regional Development Research.

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Introduction: Cities and Crisis - Challenges for Urban Theory - Kuniko Fujita
Chapter 2: 'Global Cities', World Power, and the G20 Capital Cities - Göran Therborn
Chapter 3: Was the US Subprime Crisis the Prime Mover? The Limits of the 'Critical Urbanist' Interpretation of the UK Financial Crisis - Chris Pickvance
Chapter 4: After Wall Street? New York s Green Economy Imaginaries - Michael Indergaard
Chapter 5: World Capitals of Capital, Cities and Varieties of Finance Systems - Internationally versus Regionally Oriented Banking - Stefan Gärtner
Chapter 6: Seeing New York City s Financial Crisis in the Vernacular Landscape - Jerome Krase & Timothy Shortell
Chapter 7: Ports in the Global Urban Hierarchy - Alex Hicks & Ryan Hicks
Chapter 8: Athens and the Politics of the Sovereign Debt Crisis - Nicos Souliotis
Chapter 9: Globalization and Urban Insecurity - Comparative Perspectives - Sophie Body-Gendrot
Chapter 10: Financial Crises and Spatial Income Inequality - The Case of Tokyo - Kuniko Fujita