Global Port Cities in North America - 9781138814028

Taylor & Francis

Global Port Cities in North AmericaUrbanization Processes and Global Production Networks\nAuthor(s): Boris Vormann\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138814028, 978-1138814028\nSynopsis\nAs the material anchors of globalization, North Americas global port cities channel flows of commodities, capital, and tourists. This book explores how economic globalization processes have shaped these cities' political institutions, social structures, and urban identities since the mid-1970s. Although the impacts of financialization on global cities have been widely discussed, it is curious that how the global integration of commodity chains actually happens spatially creating a quantitatively new, global organization of production, distribution, and consumption processes remains understudied. The book uses New York City, Los Angeles, Vancouver, and Montreal as case studies of how once-redundant spaces have been reorganized, an.