| Description |
xi, 335 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. World cities in a world-system / Paul L. Knox --2. Where we stand: a decade of world city research /John Friedmann -- 3. World cities and territorial states: the rise and fall of their mutuality / Peter J. Taylor -- 4. On concentration and centrality in the global city / Saskia Sassen -- 5. Cities in global matrices: toward mapping the world-system's city system / David A. Smith and Michael Timberlake -- 6. World cities, multinational corporations, and urban hierarchy: the case of the United States / Donald Lyons and Scott Salmon -- 7. Transport and the world city paradigm / David J. Keeling -- 8. The world city hypothesis: reflections from the periphery / David Simon -- 9. Global logics in the Caribbean city system: the case of Miami / Ramon Grosfoguel -- 10. Comparing Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles: testing some world cities hypotheses / Janet Lippman Abu-Lughod |
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11. 'Going global' in the semi-periphery: world cities as political projects. The case of Toronto /Graham Todd -- 12. Re-presenting world cities: cultural theory/social practice / Anthony D. King --13. Theorizing the global-local connection / Robert A. Beauregard -- 14. The disappearance of world cities and the globalization of local politics / Michael Peter Smith -- 15. World cities and global communities: the municipal foreign policy movement and new roles for cities / Andrew Kirby, Sallie Marston and Kenneth Seasholes -- 16. The environmental problematic in world cities / Roger Keil -- 17. The successful management and administration of world cities: mission impossible? / Peter M. Ward --Appendix: the world city hypothesis / John Friedmann |
| Summary |
Cities such as New York, Tokyo, and London are the centres of transnational corporate headquarters, of international finance, transnational institutions, and telecommunications. They are the dominant loci in the contemporary world economy, and the influence of a relatively small number of cities within world affairs has been a feature of the shift from an international to a more global economy which has taken place during the 1970s and 1980s. This book brings together the leading researchers in the field to write seventeen original essays which cover both the theoretical and practical issues involved. They examine the nature of world cities, and their demands as special places in need of specific urban policies; the relationship between world cities within global networks of economic flows; and the relationship between world city research and world-systems analysis and other theoretical frameworks |
| Analysis |
Cities |
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Cities and towns |
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Globalisation |
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Information and communications technology |
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International agencies and associations |
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International economic relations |
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International relations |
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Overseas item |
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international relations |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
International economic relations.
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Metropolitan areas.
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| Author |
Knox, Paul L.
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Taylor, Peter J. (Peter James), 1944-
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| LC no. |
94032444 |
| ISBN |
0521481651 (hbk.) |
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0521484707 (paperback) |
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