Agencies of Globalization and Third World Urban Form: A Review

This article proposes a theoretical framework to examine the effects of globalization on urban form and urbanism in the third world. Toward developing such a framework, the authors conceptualize globalization as the removal of political and physical barriers for the free movement of capital, people,...

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Published in:Journal of planning literature 2003-11, Vol.18 (2), p.111-130
Main Authors: Pizarro, Rafael E., Wei, Liang, Banerjee, Tridib
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Cities
Cities and towns
Developing countries
Economic theory
Environment
Form
Globalization
LDCs
Urban areas
Urban conditions
Urban development
Urban studies
Urbanism
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Summary:This article proposes a theoretical framework to examine the effects of globalization on urban form and urbanism in the third world. Toward developing such a framework, the authors conceptualize globalization as the removal of political and physical barriers for the free movement of capital, people, information, and culture among nations and propose that the removal of such barriers have consequences on the cities of the third world. These consequences, the authors suggest, are expressed in the configuration of urban space, urban form, and urbanism in the third world. The authors look at those four agencies of globalization (movement of capital, people, information, and culture) and their effects. The goal of the article is to offer a critical framework for reviewing contemporary literature on globalization and third world urban form.
ISSN:0885-4122
1552-6593
DOI:10.1177/0885412203257693