| Description |
1 online resource (237 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Global Cities and Global Order; Copyright; Preface: Ny-Lon-Kong; Acknowledgements; Contents; The Argument; List of Illustrations; Introduction:; City Renaissance; Cities and States in History; An Urban Age; Theorizing the City; Three Themes; Socio-Technical Assemblages; The Dialectic of Territory and Capital; Theorizing International Order; Outline of the Book; 1: Mutations in Urban Form; The Nature of Cities; The City as Abstraction; Cities of Capital and Industry; The City as Institution; Cityspace; Proto-cities; Agrarian Cities; Industrial Cities; The Post-metropolis |
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The Form of the Global City; Nodes; Regions; Networks; 2: Theorizing Global Cities; Transhistorical or Late-Modern Phenomenon?; Theories of the Global City; The World City Hypothesis; Globalization and the Global City; Network and Relational Approaches to Global Cities; 'Splintering' Urban Space and the Retreat of National Integration; 3: Cities, States, and International Systems; International Systems in World History; Theorizing International Change; Institutional Competition; Units, Structures, and Patterns of Organization; The Spatial and Temporal Structures of International Systems |
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The Urban Dimension of International Transformation; 4: Cities in a Global Order; From International to Global Order; Power and Global Order; The Neoliberal Turn and the Political Origins of Global Cities; Unipolarity-From Liberal Hegemony to Empire?; Global Cities as Spaces of Systemic Contention; Securing the City; Reopening Pandoras' Box; 5: Global Cities and Market Society; Cities and Economic Growth; Agglomeration Economies; Free Markets and Open Societies; The Great Transformation Goes Global; Urbanization and Financialization; Emergent Capacities, Capabilities, and Instabilities |
| Summary |
This volume investigates the changing nature of cities in the international system, and their increasing prominence in global governance and global order |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Cities and towns.
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Urban policy.
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Globalization.
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Sociology, Urban.
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cities.
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globalism.
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urban sociology.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- City Planning & Urban Development.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban.
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Cities and towns
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Globalization
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Sociology, Urban
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Urban policy
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191061592 |
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019106159X |
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9780192511942 |
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0192511947 |
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9780191804007 |
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0191804002 |
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