North American cities and the global economy
Subtitle: challenges and opportunities
By: edited by Peter Karl Kresl, Gary Gappert
Contributors: Kresl, Peter Karl; Gappert, Gary
Series: Urban affairs annual reviews -- v.44
Publisher: Sage Publications
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Thousand Oaks, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
Subjects: Cities and towns -- North America; Urban economics; Urban policy -- North America; City planning -- North America
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: North American municipalities and their involvement in the global economy -- Earl H. Fry; title: The determinants of urban competitiveness: a survey -- Peter Karl Kresl; title: Cities and citizens in flux: global consumer integration and local civic fragmentation -- John Kincaid; title: Globalization and wage polarization in U.S. and Canadian  cities: does public policy make a differene? -- Marc V. Levine; title: Globalizing economies and cities: a view from Mexico -- Daniel Hiernaux; title: Local responses to globalization and regional economic integration -- Norris C. Clement; title: World cities in the making: the European context -- Arie Shachar; title: Determinants of the growth and decline of cities in North America -- Pierre-Paul Proulx; title: Planning a U.S.-Mexican bi-national metropolis: El Paso, Texas-Ciudad Juʹarez, Chihuahua -- Samuel Schmidt; title: Achieving sustainability in Cascadia: an emerging model of urban growth  management in the Vancouver-Seattle-Portland Corridor -- Alan F. J. Artibise; title: Developing global cities in the Pacific Northwest: the cases  of Vancouver and Seattle -- Theodore H. Cohn and / -- Patrick J. Smith