Capital Cities: Varieties and Patterns of Development and RelocationTaylor & Francis, 12 mar 2018 - 338 The issue of capital city relocation is a topic of debate for more than forty countries across the world. In this first book to discuss the issue, Vadim Rossman offers an in-depth analysis of the subject, highlighting the global trends and the key factors that motivate different countries to consider such projects, analyzing the outcomes and drawing lessons from recent capital city transfers worldwide for governments and policy-makers. Capital Cities studies the approaches and the methodologies that inform such decisions and debates. Special attention is given to the study of the universal patterns of relocation and patterns specific to particular continents and mega-regions and particular political regimes. The study emphasizes the role of capital city transfers in the context of nation- and state-building and offers a new framework for thinking about capital cities, identifying six strategies that drive these decisions, representing the economic, political, geographic, cultural and security considerations. Confronting the popular hyper-critical attitudes towards new designed capital cities, Vadim Rossman shows the complex motives that underlie the proposals and the important role that new capitals might play in conflict resolution in the context of ethnic, religious and regional rivalries and federalist transformations of the state, and is seeking to identify the success and failure factors and more efficient implementation strategies. Drawing upon the insights from spatial economics, comparative federalist studies, urban planning and architectural criticism, the book also traces the evolution of the concept of the capital city, showing that the design, iconography and the location of the capital city play a critical role in the success and the viability of the state. |
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... African American and African Studies, University of California-Davis, USA, and Visiting Professor, Institute of Social and Economic Research, Rhodes University, South Africa 'Vadim Rossman is endowed with an uncanny ability to see ...
... of this topic in different world regions 77 Generations of national capitals 77 Post-colonial nation-building in Africa 84 Post-colonial nation-building in Asia 99 Southeast Asia 99 South Asia 105 The Far East 112 The Middle East Contents.
... Africa, and Europe. In other words, Rossman argues forcefully that the transfer of a national capital to a new location is part of the natural sweep of history rather than representing a peculiar, singular, or unique moment in the life ...
... Africa, after the collapse of apartheid in 1994, raised the question of whether to replace the long-standing triple ... African states (Zimbabwe, Kenya, Ghana, and Somalia). The establishment of a new capital has also been on the agenda ...
... Africa, Russia, Germany, and China. Notably, some of these subnational entities are larger in terms of territory than some European states. Since 1956 more than ten new states and union territories have been created in India, and ten ...
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2 Capital city relocation experience | 51 |
3 Capital city relocations and debates of this topic in different world regions | 77 |
4 Strategies of capital city relocations and their critics | 173 |
5 Three standards to assess the effectiveness of a capital city | 224 |
Conclusion | 271 |
Selected bibliography | 278 |
Appendices | 301 |
Index | 313 |
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