Cities in a World Economy, Fifth Edition examines the emergence of global cities as a new
social formation. As sites of rapid and widespread developments in the areas of finance …

As recently as the 1970s, many of our great cities were in physical decay and losing people,
firms, and economic clout. New York was officially bankrupt, and so was Tokyo; London was …

This study was the first systematically to cover those cities beyond the core that most clearly
can be considered world cities: Bangkok, Cairo, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Johannesburg, Mexico …

There are now more than three hundred city-regions around the world with populations
greater than one million. These city-regions are expanding vigorously, and they present …

Cities such as New York, Tokyo and London are the centres of transnational corporate
headquarters, of international finance, transnational institutions, and telecommunications …

Global Urban Analysis provides a unique insight into the contemporary world economy
through a focus on cities. It is based upon a large-scale customised data collection on how …

The reorganization of global space that has been set in motion over the past quarter century
by processes of international economic change has had some important consequences for …

Why and how do cities matter in today's global economy? Is there something different about
their role today from 20 or 30 years ago? This is, inevitably, one particular angle into the …

Studies of cities in global context have been around almost as long as scholars have been
studying cities (Weber, 1927; Pirenne, 1936). Use of the concept 'global city'did not …

Providing the first comprehensive survey of new interdisciplinary scholarship on globalized
urbanization, this important volume contains fifty selections from classic writings by authors …