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Intro -- GLOBALIZING CITIES: A NEW SPATIAL ORDER? -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Maps -- List of Tables -- List of Contributors -- Series Editors' Preface -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Unavoidable Continuities of the City -- 3 From the Metropolis to Globalization: The Dialectics of Race and Urban Form -- 4 From Colonial City to Globalizing City? The Far-from complete Spatial Transformation of Calcutta -- 5 Rio de Janeiro: Emerging Dualization in a Historically Unequal City -- 6 Singapore: the Changing Residential Landscape in a Winner City -- 7 Tokyo: Patterns of Familiarity and Partitions of Difference -- 8 Still a Global City: The Racial and Ethnic Segmentation of New York -- 9 Brussels: Post-Fordist Polarization in a Fordist Spatial Canvas -- 10 The Imprint of the Post-Fordist Transition on Australian Cities -- 11 The Globalization of Frankfurt am Main: Core, Periphery and Social Conflict -- 12 Conclusion: A Changed Spatial Order -- List of References -- Index.

This article discusses the role of the neighbourhood in an era of increased mobility. It explores the consequences of the "new mobilities paradigm", which argues that the growing importance of flows – of people, goods and information – results in a de-territorialization of social practices. Flows thus gain prominence in comparison to places like regions and neighbourhoods. At the same time, however, neighbourhoods continue to play a role in the actions and imaginations of people, neighbourhood organizations, and government policies. People still live in neighbourhoods, and governments still try to solve often severe social problems through neighbourhood policies. We argue that the neighbourhood has to be re-imagined as a collection of hybrid nodes connecting a multiplicity of flows that bind actors and objects in order to understand the potential effectiveness of these policies. From this new mobilities perspective, we make suggestions for future neighbourhood research.

Distressed urban areas suffer, by definition, from a number of serious problems. It is often assumed that all relevant stakeholders agree about the character of these problems and the right policy solutions. Reality, however, is more complex. In this paper we investigate how local stakeholders and residents in a Dutch post-WWII neighborhood perceive urban problems and solutions. The findings show the very opposite perceptions about reality and about effective solutions in distressed neighborhoods held by local managers and residents. The main conclusion is that a power-driven narrative of problematic post-WWII neighborhoods within a neoliberal strategic urban agenda has led to a power-driven urban governance arrangement to the exclusion of residents.