Speculating on the next World City

Worlding Cities: Asian Experiments and the Art of being Global

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 229-258

  Goldman, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aihwa Ong, and worlding of cities not just a phenomenon from European experience, a new dynamics across cities; Interrelated phenomena, world city making Indian cities, Asia and the Arabian Gulf; Investment strategies, intensification inter urban competitiveness, and inter referencing; IT, as urban growth machine Bangalore into a world city, extraordinary IT sector to become a permanent growth machine; New solidarities speculating on the next world city; Recent global financial crisis, capital flooding India's cities, like never before; Speculative world city projects mega schemes, Bangalore Mysore Infrastructure Corridor (BMIC), IT corridor and Bangalore International Airport and BIAL; State level Karnataka Industrial Areas Development Board (KIADB) pittance, to non elite members of rural communities; US hedge and derivative funds, chief antagonists of recent global economic collapse; World city projects, designed capturing initial speculative spike in value

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866166242     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444346800.ch9     Document Type: Chapter

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