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Global metropolitan : globalizing cities in a capitalist world / John Rennie Short
Material type:
TextSeries: Questioning cities seriesPublication details: London Routledge 2004 Description: [ix], 146 s. ill., tabISBN: 041530542X (hft.); 0-415-30541-1 (inb.)Subject(s): Metropolitan areas | Urbanization | Globalization | Cosmopolitanism | City dwellers -- Social conditions | City dwellers -- Economic conditions | City and town life | City dwellers | Urbanization | Rural-urban migration | Metropolitan areas | Globalization | Storstäder | Urbanisering | Globalisering | Stadsbefolkning | Stadsbefolkning | Ekonomiska förhållanden | Sociala förhållandenDDC classification: 307.76 Other classification: 307 | Oabba
Contents:
Globalization and the city -- From world city to globalizing city -- Globalizing cities -- Black holes and loose connections in a global urban hierarchy -- Tensions in the global city -- The modalities of the global city -- Going for gold: the summer Olympics and the global city -- The super-rich and the global city -- The global, the city, and the body
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Globalization and the city -- From world city to globalizing city -- Globalizing cities -- Black holes and loose connections in a global urban hierarchy -- Tensions in the global city -- The modalities of the global city -- Going for gold: the summer Olympics and the global city -- The super-rich and the global city -- The global, the city, and the body