Global city-regions
Subtitle: trends, theory, policy
By: edited by Allen J. Scott.
Contributors: Scott, Allen John.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 467
Subjects: Metropolitan areas; Cities and towns -- Growth; Globalization
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Global city-regions -- Allen J. Scott ... [et al.]; title: How to invite prosperity from the global economy into a region -- Kenichi Ohmae -- The; title: World Bank and global city-regions : reaching the poor -- James D. Wolfensohn; title: Quebec in an era of global city-regions -- Lucien Bouchard; title: Global city-regions in the twenty-first century -- Sir Peter Hall; title: Global cities and global city-regions : a comparison -- Saskia Sassen -- The; title: economic role and spatial contradictions of global city-regions : the functional, cognitive, and evolutionary context -- Roberto Camagni; title: Intercity networks in a globalizing era -- John Friedmann; title: Regions and the new economics of competition -- Michael E. Porter; title: Ontario as a North American region-state, Toronto as a global city-region : responding to the NAFTA challenge -- Thomas J. Courchene; title: Local governance and social diversity in the developing world : new challenges for globalizing city-regions -- Richard Stren; title: Innovation and risk-taking : urban governance in Latin America -- Tim Campbell; title: Intercity competition and the question of economic resilience : globalization and crisis in Asia -- Michael Douglass; title: Repositioning of city-regions : Korea after the crisis -- Won Bae Kim; title: Inequality in global city-regions -- Susan S. Fainstein -- The; title: immigrant niche in global city-regions : concept, patterns, controversy -- Roger Waldinger; title: Urban citizenship and globalization -- James Holston; title: Istanbul's conflicting paths to citizenship : Islamization and globalization -- Engin F. Isin; title: Governing cities and regions : territorial restructuring in a global age -- Michael Keating; title: Lessons from Silicon Valley : governance in a global city-region -- Douglas Henton; title: Local governance and conflict management : reflections on a Brazilian cluster -- Hubert Schmitz; title: Environmental sustainability and services in developing global city-regions-- Theodore Panayotou.