World City Syndrome
Subtitle: Neoliberalism and Inequality in Cape Town (Routledge Studies in Human Geography)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: October 16, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780415958578
Subjects: Geography; Business & Economics; Politics / Current Events; Business/Economics; Political Ideologies - Conservatism & Liberalism; Public Policy - Economic Policy; Economic Conditions; Cape Town; Human geography; Neoliberalism; South Africa; Urbanization
Description: Is Cape Town a world city? In many respects, yes. It fits the description of world cities laid out in the academic literature on the subject (albeit as a peripheral player) and has an increasingly complex global network of connections. But the academic description of a world city does not adequately capture or explore the dynamics of urbanization in Cape Town. As useful as this theoretical paradigm may be in describing the service-oriented, globally linked and polarized nature of the city, it fails to assess and address the key features of urban capitalist crisis that shape Cape Town and the neoliberal policies and institutions that have emerged as a result.