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Cities in Globalization - Practices, Policies and Theories (Paperback)
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Cities in Globalization - Practices, Policies and Theories (Paperback)
Series: Questioning Cities
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Despite traditionally being a strong research topic in urban
studies, inter-city relations had become grossly neglected until
recently, when it was placed back on the research agenda with the
advent of studies of world/global cities. More recently the
'external relations' of cities have taken their place alongside
'internal relations' within cities to constitute the full nature of
cities. This collection of essays on how and why cities are
connecting to each other in a globalizing world provides evidence
for a new city-centered geography that is emerging in the
twenty-first century. Cities in Globalization covers four key
themes beginning with the different ways of measuring a 'world city
network', ranging from analyses of corporate structures to airline
passenger flows. Second is the recent European advances in studying
'urban systems' which are compared to the Anglo-American city
networks approach. These chapters add conceptual vigour to
traditional themes and provide findings on European cities in
globalization. Thirdly the political implications of these new
geographies of flows are considered in a variety of contexts: the
localism of city planning, specialist 'political world cities', and
the 'war on terror'. Finally, there are a series of chapters that
critically review the state of our knowledge on contemporary
relations between cities in globalization. Cities in Globalization
provides an up-to-date assembly of leading American and European
researchers reporting their ideas on the critical issue of how
cities are faring in contemporary globalization and is highly
illustrated throughout with over forty figures and tables.
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