The world's cities : contrasting regional, national, and global perspectives / [edited by] A.J. Jacobs.

Author/creator Jacobs, Andrew James, 1963-
Format Book
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoNew York : Routledge, 2013.
Descriptionxix, 397 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Subjects

SeriesThe metropolis and modern life
Metropolis and modern life. ^A1121058
Contents 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2012007103
ISBN9780415894852
ISBN0415894859
ISBN9780415894869 (pbk.)
ISBN0415894867 (pbk.)

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