World Cities in a World-System / Edited by Paul L. Knox, Peter J. Taylor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Knox, Paul L.

Taylor, Peter J. (Peter James), 1944-

Series:

Cambridge books online.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Metropolitan areas.

International economic relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (348 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1995.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Summary:

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 has taken 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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ISBN:

9780511522192

9780521481656

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