New Global Cities in Latin America and Asia

Introduction by the editor
PART I ASIA: CENTRE OF GROWTH AND GLOBALITY
Chapter 1
Chinese Cities from the Ground to the Sky: Building Suzhou as a Global City beyond the Tradition
Raffaele Pernice
Chapter 2 
The Urban Geographies of a Small Island: A Dialectical Spatial Approach  
Gang Hong
Chapter 3
The rise of Chongqing and Queretaro: the territorial dimension of the divergent trajectories of two emerging urban economies in China and Mexico
Miguel Hidalgo Martinez
Chapter 4
Migration, expatriation, and heterosexuality in a globalized city – Singapore
Liangni Sally Liu 
Chapter 5
City-regions reconsidered
Allen J. Scott
PART II LATIN AMERICA: OPENING, GLOBALIZATION AND CRISIS
Chapter 6
Global Cities in Peripheral Countries: Argentina in the New International Labor Division
Ulises Girolimo, and Patricio Feldman
Chapter 7
Regional Planning, Development, and Governance of Metropolitan Secondary City Clusters: Case Study of Santiago and Central Chile Region
Brian Roberts, José Tomás Videla, and Marcela Allué Nualart
Chapter 8
Change of the society consumption in Peru during the globalization process
Nadia Nora Urriola Canchari
Chapter 9
Urban Conflict and Transnational Crime in Latin American Cities
John P. Sullivan
Chapter 10
The emergence of a global urban region: The Urban Corridor automotive and aeronautical in the Central – Bajío Region, Mexico 
Adrián Moreno Mata
Chapter 11
Economy, Inequalities and Cities. Chinese influence in Latin America
Pablo Baisotti
Conclusion
Contributors

“By the end of 2022, the world’s population numbered just over 7.8 billion. 56.4 percent of these live in large urban concentrations and almost two-thirds of that agglomeration is located in Asian and Latin American cities. That is the quantitative context of the book edited by Professor Pablo Baisotti. It is clear that the most fundamental political and social challenges of the Asian continent and the Latin American region in the very coming decades will revolve around the structure and institutional functioning of urban concentration.
In the Latin American region, meanwhile, other aspects of urban culture are observable, as listed in this book. It highlights, for instance, a great mobility of diverse groups and social strata among large cities. In more than one case, the population growth of some urban concentrations in the region is due to a growing interurban mobility, which has increased the number of inhabitants of some cities with immigrants from others, without noticeable altering the vegetative growth of large cities. The political effects have been obvious, though, since this mobility has gravitated to the presence of new ideological and institutional references.
This is a book that comprehensively covers the vicissitudes of urban agglomerations during the last twenty years. From their respective points of view, the authors converge in acknowledging the relevance of this issue from their respective realities. In short, it is an indispensable work in these matters and therefore it is convenient to have it at hand.”

—Roberto Durán, Professor, Institute of Political Science, Catholic University of Chile