Cities in globalization : practices, policies and theories / edited by Peter J. Taylor ... [et al.].
Material type: TextSeries: Questioning cities seriesPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2007.Description: xvi, 330 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780415512602 (pbk.)
- 9780415409841 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 307.76 CIT 23 002292
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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.
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