Cities in Globalization (eBook, PDF)

Practices, Policies and Theories
Redaktion: Taylor, Peter; Witlox, Frank; Saey, Pieter; Derudder, Ben

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This collection of essays on how and why cities are connecting to each other in a globalising world provides evidence for a new city-centered geography emerging in the 20th century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. November 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134129829
• Artikelnr.: 43070778

Autorenporträt

Peter Taylor, Ben Derudder, Pieter Saey, Frank Witlox

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue: A Lineage for Contemporary Inter-City Studies 1. Introduction:
Cities in Globalization Part 1: World City Networks 2. Globalization and
the World City System: Preliminary Results from a Longitudinal Data Set 3.
Airline Passenger Flows through Cities: Some New Evidence 4. World City
Networks from 'Below': International Mobility and Inter-City Relations in
the Global Investment Banking Industry 5. World Cities and the
Internationalization of Design Services Part 2: Inter-City Relations in
Networks and Systems 6. Urban Network Development Under Conditions of
Uncertainty 7. City Networks as Tools for Competitiveness and
Sustainability 8. Firm Linkages, Innovation and the Evolution of Urban
Systems 9. The Metropolitanization of the European Urban and Regional
System Part 3: Politics in Inter-City Relations 10. Positioning Cities in
the World: Towards a Politics of Flow 11. Political World Cities: Where
Flows through Entwined Multi-State and Transnational Networks Meet Places
12. Inter-City Relations and the 'War on Terror' Part 4: Rethinking Cities
in Globalization 13. Reading the City in a Global Digital Age: Between
Topographic Representation and Spatialized Power Projects 14.
Poststructuralism, Power and the Global City 15. The Mismatch between
Concepts and Evidence in the Study of a Global Urban Network 16. Cities
within Spaces of Flows: Theses for a Materialist Understanding of the
External Relations of Cities 17. How Cities Scientifically (do not) Exist.
Methodological Appraisal of Research on Globalizing Processes of Intercity
Networking