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Have the economic, political, and social forces buffeting cities finally alerted their fundamental spatial order. “What is new about cities today?” ask Editors Peter Marcuse and Ronald van Kempen. A collection of essays from numerous scholars, ''Globalizing Cities: A New Spatial Order?'' explores how several broad categories (race/racism, globalization, migration, new demographics, changing role of public sector, changing and patterns of choice) have affected the formation of six basic “spatial divisions” citadels, gentrified neighborhoods, suburbs , working class areas, ethnic enclaves, and exclusionary ghettos. Contributors studied cities from around the world including Singapore, Tokyo, Calcutta, New York, Brussels, Frankfurt, and Rio Di Janeiro. As a sum of its parts, the work embraces a transnational comparative approach.
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Have the economic, political, and social forces buffeting cities finally alerted their fundamental spatial order. “What is new about cities today?” ask Editors Peter Marcuse and Ronald van Kempen. A collection of essays from numerous scholars, ''Globalizing Cities: A New Spatial Order?'' explores how several broad categories (race/racism, globalization, migration, new demographics, changing role of public sector, changing and patterns of choice) have affected the formation of six basic “spatial divisions” citadels, gentrified neighborhoods, suburbs, working-class areas, ethnic enclaves, and exclusionary ghettos. Contributors studied cities from around the world including Singapore, Tokyo, Calcutta, New York, Brussels, Frankfurt, and Rio Di Janeiro. As a sum of its parts, the work embraces a transnational comparative approach.
    
The book puts forth a general hypothesis regarding the development of urban metropolises since the 1970s. Acknowledging that cities have always illustrated divisions along cultural, functional and economic lines, the current pattern “is a new and in many ways deeper going combination of these divisions”. No uniform model exists such that each city manifests these changes differently but in general the new spatial order’s basic features “included a spatial concentration within cities of a new urban poverty on the one hand, and of specialized “high level” internationally connected business activities on the other, with increasing spatial divisions not only between each of them, but also among segments of the “middle class” in between.” Social and physical boundaries providing the separation have proliferated and hardened. Thus, settlement develop in the clusters discussed above in a relational hierarchy. Though many of these developments are market driven the state plays a significant and key role. If it can create these conditions, it can also erase them.
 
The book puts forth a general hypothesis regarding the development of urban metropolises since the 1970s. Acknowledging that cities have always illustrated divisions along cultural, functional and economic lines, the current pattern “is a new and in many ways deeper going combination of these divisions”. No uniform model exists such that each city manifests these changes differently but in general the new spatial order’s basic features “included a spatial concentration within cities of a new urban poverty on the one hand, and of specialized “high level” internationally connected business activities on the other, with increasing spatial divisions not only between each of them, but also among segments of the “middle class” in between.” Social and physical boundaries providing the separation have proliferated and hardened. Thus, settlement develop in the clusters discussed above in a relational hierarchy. Though many of these developments are market driven the state plays a significant and key role. If it can create these conditions, it can also erase them.