TY - BOOK AU - Taylor,Peter J. TI - Cities in globalization: practices, policies and theories T2 - Questioning cities SN - 9780415512602 (pbk.) U1 - 307.76 CIT 23 PY - 2007/// CY - London, New York PB - Routledge KW - Cities and towns KW - Globalization KW - Internationalisatie KW - gtt KW - Steden KW - Netwerken N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction: cities in globalization /​ Frank Witlox pt. I World city networks 2.Globalization and the world city system: preliminary results from a longitudinal data set /​ Jason Beckfield 3.Airline passenger flows through cities: some new evidence /​ Ben Derudder 4.World city networks `from below': international mobility and inter-city relations in the global investment banking industry /​ Jonathan V. Beaverstock 5.World cities and the internationalization of design services /​ Paul L. Knox pt. II Inter-city relations in networks and systems 6.Urban network development under conditions of uncertainty /​ G. A. (Bert) Van Der Knaap 7.City networks as tools for competitiveness and sustainability /​ Roberto Camagni 8.Firm linkages, innovation and the evolution of urban systems /​ Denise Pumain 9.The metropolization of the European urban system in the era of globalization /​ Stefan Kratke Contents note continued: pt. III Politics in inter-city relations 10.Positioning cities in the world: towards a politics of flow /​ Phil Hubbard 11.Political world cities: where flows through entwined multi-state and transnational networks meet places /​ Herman Van Der Wusten 12.Inter-city relations and the `war on terror' /​ Stephen Graham pt. IV Rethinking cities in globalization 13.Reading the city in a global digital age: the limits of topographic representation /​ Saskia Sassen 14.Poststructuralism, power and the global city /​ Richard G. Smith 15.The mismatch between concepts and evidence in the study of a global urban network /​ Ben Derudder 16.Cities within spaces of flows: theses for a materialist understanding of the external relations of cities /​ Peter J. Taylor 17.How cities scientifically (do not) exist: methodological appraisal of research on globalizing processes of intercity networking /​ Pieter Saey UR - http://openisbn.com/isbn/0415512603/ ER -