Review of Michele Acuto 2021: How to build a global city: recognizing the symbolic power of a global urban imagination. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

Abstract

Countless cities worldwide pursue surprisingly similar strategies of growth and internationalization against the backdrop of a vision to become global. This is the focus of How to Build a Global City by Michele Acuto. The author is right to point out that the term global city ‘is a shorthand for a complex … imagination […]