The world's cities contrasting regional, national, and global perspectives

Introduction: cities and regions evolving in an ever changing world / A.J. Jacobs -- City-regions in a world system -- City-regions in a world system : an overview / A.J. Jacobs -- Where we stand : a decade of world city research / John Friedmann -- Cities in a world economy / Saskia Sassen -- A glo...

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Weitere Verfasser: Jacobs, A. J. (BerichterstatterIn)
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Veröffentlicht: New York, NY u.a. Routledge 2013
Ausgabe:1. ed.
Schriftenreihe:The metropolis and modern life
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Zusammenfassung:Introduction: cities and regions evolving in an ever changing world / A.J. Jacobs -- City-regions in a world system -- City-regions in a world system : an overview / A.J. Jacobs -- Where we stand : a decade of world city research / John Friedmann -- Cities in a world economy / Saskia Sassen -- A global network analysis of 234 cities / B. Derudder, P. Taylor, F. Witlox, G. Catalano -- Mexico City : the making of a global city? / Christof Parnreiter -- Location theory in reverse? : IT production in the Bangalore, India / Rolee Aranya -- Building Shanghai : historical lessons from China's gateway / Edward Denison -- Race, space and spatial order in Johannesburg / Owen Crankshaw -- Global Dubai or Dubaization / Yasser Elsheshtawy -- Nested city-regions -- The nested city / Richard Child Hill & Kuniko Fujita -- New York, Chicago, Los Angeles : America's global cities / Janet L. Abu-Lughod -- Race, fragmentation, and divergent outcomes in Detroit & Toronto / A.J. Jacobs -- Planning Taipei / Chia-Huang Wang -- Expanding income stratification in the Tokyo region / A.J. Jacobs -- Experiencing Jakarta / Chris Silver -- Actor networks and hybrid developmental states : Malaysia's multimedia super-corridor and New York's Silicon Alley / Michael Indergaard -- Ulsan : South Korea's great industrial city / A.J. Jacobs
Beschreibung:Literaturverz. S. [367] - 389
Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:XIX, 397 S.
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ISBN:9780415894852
978-0-415-89485-2
9780415894869
978-0-415-89486-9