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International Handbook of Globalization and World Cities

Edited by Ben Derudder, Michael Hoyler, Peter J. Taylor and Frank Witlox

in Books from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This Handbook offers an unrivalled overview of current research into how globalization is affecting the external relations and internal structures of major cities in the world.

Keywords: Geography; Urban and Regional Studies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
ISBN: 9781848446472
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Introduction: A Relational Urban Studies Downloads
Ben Derudder, Michael Hoyler, Peter J. Taylor and Frank Witlox
Ch 2 Historical World City Networks Downloads
Peter J. Taylor
Ch 3 Cities in the Making of World Hegemonies Downloads
Peter J. Taylor, Michael Hoyler and Dennis Smith
Ch 4 Imperialism and World Cities Downloads
Anthony D. King
Ch 5 Political Global Cities Downloads
Herman van der Wusten
Ch 6 The Interlocking Network Model Downloads
Peter J. Taylor
Ch 7 On City Cooperation and City Competition Downloads
Peter J. Taylor
Ch 8 Global City/World City Downloads
Ben Derudder, Anneleen De Vos and Frank Witlox
Ch 9 Spatial Transformations of Cities: Global City-region? Mega-city Region? Downloads
Kathy Pain
Ch 10 World Cities and Airline Networks Downloads
Tony Grubesic and Timothy C. Matisziw
Ch 11 Internet Networks of World Cities: Agglomeration and Dispersion Downloads
Edward J. Malecki
Ch 12 Corporate Networks of World Cities Downloads
Arthur S. Alderson and Jason Beckfield
Ch 13 Advanced Producer Servicing Networks of World Cities Downloads
Peter J. Taylor, Ben Derudder, Michael Hoyler and Frank Witlox
Ch 14 Airports: From Flying Fields to Twenty-first Century Aerocities Downloads
Lucy C.S. Budd
Ch 15 Global Cities, Office Markets and Capital Flows Downloads
Colin Lizieri
Ch 16 International Trade Fairs and World Cities: Temporary vs. Permanent Clusters Downloads
Harald Bathelt
Ch 17 Mega-events: Urban Spectaculars and Globalization Downloads
John Rennie Short
Ch 18 Cyberinfrastructures and ‘Smart’ World Cities: Physical, Human and Soft Infrastructures Downloads
Andrew Boulton, Stanley D. Brunn and Lomme Devriendt
Ch 19 Centrality, Hierarchy and Heterarchy of Worldwide Corporate Networks Downloads
Ronald Wall and Bert van der Knaap
Ch 20 Business Knowledges Within and Between the World City Downloads
James Faulconbridge and Sarah Hall
Ch 21 Highly Skilled International Labour Migration and World Cities: Expatriates, Executives and Entrepreneurs Downloads
Jonathan Beaverstock
Ch 22 Grasping the Spatial Paradoxes of Finance: Theoretical Lessons from the Case of Amsterdam Downloads
Ewald Engelen
Ch 23 The Cultural Economy and the Global City Downloads
Andy C. Pratt
Ch 24 Starchitects, Starchitecture and the Symbolic Capital of World Cities Downloads
Paul Knox
Ch 25 How Global is the ‘Global Media’? Analysing the Networked Urban Geographies of Transnational Media Corporations Downloads
Allan Watson
Ch 26 World Cities of Sex Downloads
Phil Hubbard
Ch 27 Global City-region Governance, Ten Years On Downloads
John Harrison
Ch 28 Cities and Sustainability: Reflections on a Decade of World Development Downloads
Kathy Pain
Ch 29 Planning for World Cities: Shifting Agendas and Differing Politics Downloads
Peter Newman and Andy Thornley
Ch 30 Surveillance in the World City Downloads
David Murakami Wood
Ch 31 Global Cities and Infectious Disease Downloads
Harris Ali and Roger Keil
Ch 32 Urban Social Polarization Downloads
Chris Hamnett
Ch 33 Gentrifying the World City Downloads
Loretta Lees
Ch 34 The Privileged World City: Private Banking, Wealth Management and the Bespoke Servicing of the Global Super-rich Downloads
Jonathan Beaverstock
Ch 35 Global Workers for Global Cities: Low Paid Migrant Labour in London Downloads
Kavita Datta, Cathy McIlwaine, Joanna Herbert, Yara Evans, Jon May and Jane Wills
Ch 36 Cultural Diasporas Downloads
Caroline Nagel
Ch 37 Suburbanization and Global Cities Downloads
Roger Keil
Ch 38 NY-LON Downloads
Richard G. Smith
Ch 39 Shanghai, Beijing and Hong Kong Within a Financial Centre Network Downloads
Karen P.Y. Lai
Ch 40 More than an Ordinary City: The Role of Mexico City in Global Commodity Chains Downloads
Christof Parnreiter
Ch 41 Mumbai as a Global City: A Theoretical Essay Downloads
Jan Nijman
Ch 42 Accra: A Globalizing City Downloads
Richard Grant
Ch 43 Geographies of Power in the Indonesia–Malaysia–Singapore Growth Triangle Downloads
Tim Bunnell, Carl Grundy-Warr, James D. Sidaway and Matthew Sparke
Ch 44 Randstad Holland: Probing Hierarchies and Interdependencies in a Polycentric World City Region Downloads
Bart Lambregts and Robert Kloosterman
Ch 45 From National Capital to Dismal Political World City: The Politics of Scalar Disarticulation in Brussels Downloads
Stijn Oosterlynck
Ch 46 Las Vegas: More than a One-dimensional World City? Downloads
Robert E. Lang and Christina Nicholas
Ch 47 South Florida: World City, Edgeless City Downloads
Robert E. Lang and Christina Nicholas
Ch 48 Marked by Dynamics: Berlin and Warsaw in the Process of Functional Change Downloads
Ewa Korcelli-Olejniczak
Ch 49 ‘The World City Concept Travels East’: On Excessive Imagination and Limited Urban Sustainability in UAE World Cities Downloads
David Bassens
Ch 50 Sydney: The Wicked Power-geometry of a Greening Global City Downloads
Michele Acuto

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