Screen LibraryThe world's cities：contrasting regional, national, and global perspectives
Saved in:
| Group Author: | ; |
|---|---|
| Published: |
Routledge,
|
| Publisher Address: | New York |
| Publication Dates: | 2013. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
The metropolis and modern life |
| Subjects: | |
| Carrier Form: | xix, 397 p.: ill., maps ; 25 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780415894852 0415894859 9780415894869 (pbk.) 0415894867 (pbk.) |
| Index Number: | C912 |
| CLC: | C912.81 |
| Call Number: | C912.81/W927-1 |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. |