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Globalization and urban environmental transitions: Comparison of New York’s and Tokyo’s experiences

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Globalization and Urban Development

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This article argues that urban environmental transitions (McGranahan et al. 2001) are experienced differently by cities, such as New York and Tokyo. While New York has experienced shifts in its environmental burdens over long periods of time and in sequential order, Tokyo, which developed rapidly under the forces of globalization, has experienced shifts in environmental burdens over shorter periods and simultaneously. Starting from the viewpoint that associates long waves of development with the Western experience, the paper demonstrates that there were different transitions among sets of environmental conditions within the United States in general and New York City in particular. Then, the focus turns to the contemporary urban development of Japan and Tokyo. David Harvey’s (1989) notion of “time-space compression,” helps to explain the compressed and telescoped transitions.

The authors would like to thank the United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies, the Summer Program in Japan, sponsored by the National Science Foundation and the Japanese Ministry of Education for their financial support.

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  1. Institute of Advanced Studies, United Nations University, 53-67, Jingumae 5-chrome, Shibuyaku, Tokyo, 150-8303, Japan

    Peter J. Marcotullio

  2. Environmental Science and Engineering Program, University of California, Los Angeles, USA

    Sarah Rothenberg

  3. National Institute for Environmental Studies, Onogawa 16-2, Isukuba, Ibaraki, 305-0053, Japan

    Miri Nakahara

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  1. University of Southern California, LOS Angeles, CA, 90089-0626, USA

    Harry W. Richardson (The James Irvine Chair of Urban and Regional Planning and Professor of Economics) (The James Irvine Chair of Urban and Regional Planning and Professor of Economics)

  2. Department of Urban Design and Planning, University of Washington, Box 355740, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA

    Chang-Hee Christine Bae (Associate Professor) (Associate Professor)

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Marcotullio, P.J., Rothenberg, S., Nakahara, M. (2005). Globalization and urban environmental transitions: Comparison of New York’s and Tokyo’s experiences. In: Richardson, H.W., Bae, CH.C. (eds) Globalization and Urban Development. Advances in Spatial Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-28351-X_19

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