The world's cities
Subtitle: contrasting regional, national, and global perspectives
By: [edited by] A.J. Jacobs
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Metropolis and modern life
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415894852; 9780415894869
Subjects: Cities and towns; Growth; Cities and town; Urban economics
Table of contents: title: Introduction: cities and regions evolving in an ever changing world / A.J. Jacobs; title: City-regions in a world system; title: City-regions in a world system : an overview / A.J. Jacobs; title: Where we stand : a decade of world city research / John Friedmann; title: Cities in a world economy / Saskia Sassen; title: A global network analysis of 234 cities / B. Derudder, P. Taylor, F. Witlox, G. Catalano; title: Mexico City : the making of a global city? / Christof Parnreiter; title: Location theory in reverse? : IT production in the Bangalore, India / Rolee Aranya; title: Building Shanghai : historical lessons from China's gateway / Edward Denison; title: Race, space and spatial order in Johannesburg / Owen Crankshaw; title: Global Dubai or dubaization / Yasser Elsheshtawy; title: Nested city-regions; title: The nested city / Richard Child Hill & Kuniko Fujita; title: New York, Chicago, Los Angeles : America's global cities / Janet L. Abu-Lughod; title: Race, fragmentation, and divergent outcomes in Detroit & Toronto / A.J. Jacobs; title: Planning Taipei / Chia-Huang Wang; title: Expanding income stratification in the Tokyo region / A.J. Jacobs; title: Experiencing Jakarta / Chris Silver; title: Actor networks and hybrid developmental states : Malaysia's multimedia super-corridor and New York's Silicon alley / Michael Indergaard; title: Ulsan : South Korea's great industrial city / A.J. Jacobs.