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World Cities in a World-System

World Cities in a World-System

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Publisher's Synopsis

Cities such as New York, Tokyo and London are the centres of transnational corporate headquarters, of international finance, transnational institutions, and telecommunications. They are the dominant loci in the contemporary world economy, and the influence of a relatively small number of cities within world affairs has been a feature of the shift from an international to a more global economy which took place during the 1970s and 1980s. This book brings together the leading researchers in the field to write seventeen original essays which cover both the theoretical and practical issues involved. They examine the nature of world cities, and their demands as special places in need of specific urban policies; the relationship between world cities within global networks of economic flows; and the relationship between world city research and world-systems analysis and other theoretical frameworks.

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Book information

ISBN: 9780521484701
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 307.76/4
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 348
Weight: 536g
Height: 151mm
Width: 227mm
Spine width: 21mm