The dominating influence of a relatively small number of cities has characterized the shift to a more global economy during the 1970s and 1980s. Eighteen original essays accordingly examine the nature, demands and relationships of world cities such as New York, Tokyo and London.
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"The accessibility of the text and the compactness of the chapters make it a useful and lively textbook for graduate students in urban studies and planning as well as in courses that focus on the global dimensions of geography, political economy and sociology....World Cities in a World System makes available an important set of readings for planners and students of planning who are interested in the future shape of the public sector and the public's participation in setting urban agendas." Gerald Sussman, JAPA Journal
"This highly recommended book offers a challenging research agenda to those interested in overcoming these boundaries and advancing this important debate." Susan Clarke, American Political Science Review
"This highly recommended book offers a challenging research agenda to those interested in overcoming these boundaries and advancing this important debate." Susan Clarke, American Political Science Review
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The dominating influence of a relatively small number of cities has characterized the shift to a more global economy during the 1970s and 1980s. Eighteen original essays accordingly examine the nature, demands and relationships of world cities such as New York, Tokyo and London. cities has characterized the shift to an increasingly global economy during the 1970s and 1980s. Eighteen original essays examine the nature, demands and relationships of cities such as New York, Tokyo and London.
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Last November in the Mississippi Delta, William White, an African-American tractor driver on the old Miley Plantation, harvested a few hundred acres of cotton. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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corporate headquarter concentration, world city system, global metropolitanism, world city paradigm, world city hierarchy, world city hypothesis, global urban system, global airline network, world city status, world city formation, contemporary world cities, world city research, municipal foreign policy, mediary functions, higher order services, corporate headquarter location, city nexus, transnational migrants, producer services sector, major world cities, basing points, urban hierarchy, dual city, transnational capitalist class Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Los Angeles, Basil Blackwell, Latin America, Mexico City, San Francisco, United States, Sao Paulo, Hong Kong, Buenos Aires, South Africa, Newbury Park, Cold War, Princeton University Press, Cambridge University Press, Caribbean Basin, Central America, North American, Oxford University Press, Soviet Union, University of California Press, First World, John Friedmann, New Orleans, South America New!
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- Dual City: Restructuring New York (The City in the twenty-first century) by John H. Mollenkopf on 4 pages
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