World cities in a world-system
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 wit...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press
1995.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part 1. Introduction: world city, huypothesis and context. 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
- Part 2. Cities in systems. 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
- 11. 'Going global' in te semi-periphery: world cities as political projects. The case of Toronto / Graham Todd. Part 3. Politics and policy in world cities: theory and practice. 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 / Andre Kirby and Sallie Marston, with 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 Friedman.
