Global metropolitan
Subtitle: globalizing cities in a capitalist world
By: John Rennie Short.
Series: Questioning cities series
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
Subjects: Metropolitan areas.; Urbanization.; Globalization.; Cosmopolitanism.; City dwellers -- Social conditions.; City dwellers -- Economic conditions.; City and town life.
Description: The force of globalization is making cities change all around the world. Short's study explores how the discourse of globalization has become a major narrative in the restructuring of cities in many parts of the world.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Globalization and the city; title: From world city to globalizing city; title: Globalizing cities; title: Black holes and loose connections in a global urban hierarchy; title: Tensions in the global city; title: The modalities of the global city; title: Going for gold: the summer Olympics and the global city; title: The super-rich and the global city; title: The global, the city, and the body.