Cities and Crisis

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.

Introduction: Cities and Crisis - Challenges for Urban Theory - Kuniko Fujita Chapter 2: 'Global Cities', World Power, and the G20 Capital Cities - Goeran 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 Gaertner 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

Opens up new trajectories for understanding and developing contemporary urban theory. The insights offered will be useful for students and researchers from diverse disciplines of urban studies, geography, urban planning and development, conflict studies and urban sociology. -- Lakshmi Priya Rajendran, University of Sheffield