Global metropolitan : globalizing cities in a capitalist world /
Short, John R.
London : Routledge,
2004.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Globalization and the city -- From world city to globalizing city -- Globalizing cities -- Black holes and loose connections in a global urban hierarchy -- Tensions in the global city -- The modalities of the global city -- Going for gold: the summer Olympics and the global city -- The super-rich and the global city -- The global, the city, and the body.
Metropolitan areas.
Urbanization.
Globalization.
Cosmopolitanism.
City dwellers
City dwellers
City and town life.