World Cities In A World System

Author : Paul L. Knox,Peter James Taylor,Peter J. Taylor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1995-07-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521484707

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World Cities in a World-System by Paul L. Knox,Peter James Taylor,Peter J. Taylor Pdf

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.

Author : Andrew James Jacobs
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780415894852

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The World's Cities by Andrew James Jacobs Pdf

The World’s Cities offers instructors and students in higher education an accessible introduction to the three major perspectives influencing city-regions worldwide: City-Regions in a World System; Nested City-Regions; and The City-Region as the Engine of Economic Activity/Growth. The book provides students with helpful essays on each perspective, case studies to illustrate each major viewpoint, and discussion questions following each reading. The World’s Cities concludes with an original essay by the editor that helps students understand how an analysis incorporating a combination of theoretical perspectives and factors can provide a richer appreciation of the world’s city dynamics.

Author : Paul Leslie Knox
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:222709909

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World Cities in a World-system by Paul Leslie Knox Pdf

Author : Chinese University of Hong Kong
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015037777730

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Emerging World Cities in Pacific Asia by Chinese University of Hong Kong Pdf

The book provides a comprehensive appraisal of the interplay between global structural adjustments and the changing role and configuration of Asia's world cities at the close of the twentieth century, with emphasis on the functional importance and complexity of world cities in the global and regional economies.

Author : Saskia Sassen
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781506362625

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Cities in a World Economy by Saskia Sassen Pdf

Cities in a World Economy, Fifth Edition examines the emergence of global cities as a new social formation. As sites of rapid and widespread developments in the areas of finance, information and people, global cities lie at the core of the major processes of globalization. The book reflects the most current data available and explores recent debates such as the role of cities in mitigating environmental problems, the global refugee crisis, Brexit, and the rise of Donald Trump in the United States

Author : OECD,European Commission
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264376663

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OECD Urban Studies Cities in the World A New Perspective on Urbanisation by OECD,European Commission Pdf

Cities are not only home to around half of the global population but also major centers of economic activity and innovation. Yet, so far there has been no consensus of what a city really is. Substantial differences in the way cities, metropolitan, urban, and rural areas are defined across countries hinder robust international comparisons and an accurate monitoring of SDGs. The report Cities in the World: A New Perspective on Urbanisation addresses this void and provides new insights on urbanisation by applying for the first time two new definitions of human settlements to the entire globe: the Degree of Urbanisation and the Functional Urban Area.

Author : Peter Taylor,Ben Derudder,Pieter Saey,Frank Witlox
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2006-11-20
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781134129812

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Cities in Globalization by Peter Taylor,Ben Derudder,Pieter Saey,Frank Witlox Pdf

Despite traditionally being a strong research topic in urban studies, inter-city relations had become grossly neglected until recently, when it was placed back on the research agenda with the advent of studies of world/global cities. More recently the ‘external relations’ of cities have taken their place alongside ‘internal relations’ within cities to constitute the full nature of cities. This collection of essays on how and why cities are connecting to each other in a globalizing world provides evidence for a new city-centered geography that is emerging in the twenty-first century. Cities in Globalization covers four key themes beginning with the different ways of measuring a ‘world city network’, ranging from analyses of corporate structures to airline passenger flows. Second is the recent European advances in studying ‘urban systems’ which are compared to the Anglo-American city networks approach. These chapters add conceptual vigour to traditional themes and provide findings on European cities in globalization. Thirdly the political implications of these new geographies of flows are considered in a variety of contexts: the localism of city planning, specialist ‘political world cities’, and the ‘war on terror’. Finally, there are a series of chapters that critically review the state of our knowledge on contemporary relations between cities in globalization. Cities in Globalization provides an up-to-date assembly of leading American and European researchers reporting their ideas on the critical issue of how cities are faring in contemporary globalization and is highly illustrated throughout with over forty figures and tables.

Author : John Tutino,Martin V. Melosi
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469648767

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New World Cities by John Tutino,Martin V. Melosi Pdf

For millennia, urban centers were pivots of power and trade that ruled and linked rural majorities. After 1950, explosive urbanization led to unprecedented urban majorities around the world. That transformation--inextricably tied to rising globalization--changed almost everything for nearly everybody: production, politics, and daily lives. In this book, seven eminent scholars look at the similar but nevertheless divergent courses taken by Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Montreal, Los Angeles, and Houston in the twentieth century, attending to the challenges of rapid growth, the gains and limits of popular politics, and the profound local effects of a swiftly modernizing, globalizing economy. By exploring the rise of these six cities across five nations, New World Cities investigates the complexities of power and prosperity, difficulty and desperation, while reckoning with the social, cultural, and ethnic dynamics that mark all metropolitan areas. Contributors: Michele Dagenais, Mark Healey, Martin V. Melosi, Bryan McCann, Joseph A. Pratt, George J. Sanchez, and John Tutino.

Author : Philipp Strobl Andreas Exenberger (Günter Bischof, James Mokhiber (dir.).)
Publisher : innsbruck University Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783903122239

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Globalization and the City by Philipp Strobl Andreas Exenberger (Günter Bischof, James Mokhiber (dir.).) Pdf

The world today is far less a global village than a “global city”, as global network of multidimensional urban spaces of congestion prominently forming – and also formed by – globalization. But the relevance of cities is nothing but new. They were essential for culture and civilization worldwide, they allowed a centralization of power and knowledge and they were crucial for the division of labor and for the organization of mass demand. Further, as places of intense and continuous interactions, cities are the locations par excellence for global history to take place. Thus, there is a need to study the history of cities in connection with the history of globalization from this perspective. This book is dedicated to contribute to the still underdeveloped but growing literature connecting the history of cities worldwide and their relation to global processes. The authors do so from various disciplinary backgrounds and by referring to different times and places. We visit ancient Alexandria, nineteenth century Zanzibar, and modern-day São Paolo, among others, and we view these cities not only in their globality, but also through their heritage, their economic relevance, their architecture, or financial flows connecting them. Further, the book also contains systematic considerations about “global city”, especially the general role of cities in development, cities in global history teaching, and cities' relationships to global commodity chains.

Author : Chadwick F. Alger
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-13
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783319005126

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The UN System and Cities in Global Governance by Chadwick F. Alger Pdf

This is the second volume to commemorate the 90th birthday of the distinguished scholar Chadwick F. Alger to honor his lifetime achievement in international relations and as President of the International Studies Association (1978-1979). After a brief introduction by Chad F. Alger this volume presents six of his key texts on The UN System and Cities in Global Governance, focusing on “Cities as arenas for participatory learning in global citizenship”; “The Impact of Cities on International Systems”; “Perceiving, Analysing and Coping With the Local-Global Nexus”; “The World Relations of Cities: Closing the Gap Between Social Science Paradigms and Everyday Human Experience”; “Japanese Municipal International Exchange and Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific: Opportunities and Challenges” and on “Searching for Democratic Potential in Emerging Global Governance: What Are the Implications of Regional and Global Involvements of Local Governments?”.

Author : Peter J. Taylor,Ben Derudder
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-17
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781317550525

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World City Network by Peter J. Taylor,Ben Derudder Pdf

With the advent of multinational corporations, the traditional urban service function has 'gone global'. In order to provide services to globalizing corporate clients, the offices of major financial and business service firms across the world have generated networks of work. It is the myriad of flows between office towers in different metropolitan centres that has produced a world city network. Taylor and Derudder's unique and illuminating book provides both an update and a substantial revision of the first edition that was published in 2004. It provides a comprehensive and systematic description and analysis of the world city network as the 'skeleton' upon which contemporary globalization has been built. Through an analysis of the intra-company flows of 175 leading global service firms across 526 cities in 2012, this book assesses cities in terms of their overall network connectivity, the regional configurations they form, and their changing position in the period 2000-12. Results are used to reflect on cities and city/state relations in the context of the global ecological and economic crisis. Written by two of the foremost authorities on the subject, this book provides a much-needed mapping of the connecting relationships between world cities, and will be a valuable resource for students of urban studies, geography, sociology and planning.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2000-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781461636458

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A World-Systems Reader by Anonim Pdf

This book brings together some of the most influential new research from the world-systems perspective. The authors survey and analyze new and emerging topics from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives, from political science to archaeology. Each analytical essay is written in accessible language so that the volume serves as a lucid introduction both to the tradition of world-systems thought and the new debates that are sparking further research today.

Author : Peter J. Taylor,Ben Derudder
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-17
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781317550532

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World City Network by Peter J. Taylor,Ben Derudder Pdf

With the advent of multinational corporations, the traditional urban service function has 'gone global'. In order to provide services to globalizing corporate clients, the offices of major financial and business service firms across the world have generated networks of work. It is the myriad of flows between office towers in different metropolitan centres that has produced a world city network. Taylor and Derudder's unique and illuminating book provides both an update and a substantial revision of the first edition that was published in 2004. It provides a comprehensive and systematic description and analysis of the world city network as the 'skeleton' upon which contemporary globalization has been built. Through an analysis of the intra-company flows of 175 leading global service firms across 526 cities in 2012, this book assesses cities in terms of their overall network connectivity, the regional configurations they form, and their changing position in the period 2000-12. Results are used to reflect on cities and city/state relations in the context of the global ecological and economic crisis. Written by two of the foremost authorities on the subject, this book provides a much-needed mapping of the connecting relationships between world cities, and will be a valuable resource for students of urban studies, geography, sociology and planning.

Author : Saskia Sassen
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781400847488

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The Global City by Saskia Sassen Pdf

This classic work chronicles how New York, London, and Tokyo became command centers for the global economy and in the process underwent a series of massive and parallel changes. What distinguishes Sassen's theoretical framework is the emphasis on the formation of cross-border dynamics through which these cities and the growing number of other global cities begin to form strategic transnational networks. All the core data in this new edition have been updated, while the preface and epilogue discuss the relevant trends in globalization since the book originally came out in 1991.

Author : Stephen G. Bunker,Paul S. Ciccantell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1998-02-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780313389412

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Space and Transport in the World-System by Stephen G. Bunker,Paul S. Ciccantell Pdf

Key metaphors in world-system analysis are profoundly spatial, but there have been few attempts to understand how space, location, and topography affect world-system organization and process. To fill this gap, this book examines case studies of the restructuring of space and transport in core, semiperipheral, and peripheral economies. It addresses such topics as the role of ocean transport in linking terrestrially based units of the capitalist world economy, the role of land transport systems in the construction and restructuring of relationships between raw materials peripheries and core economies, and the role of the airplane in transforming and representing changing spatial, economic, and social relations in the capitalist world economy. World-systems theory and many other perspectives on the world economy, including international political economy and analysis of globalization, typically pay only limited attention to issues of space, location, and the role of transportation in the world economy. This book identifies key theoretical and empirical issues and provides the basis for formulating research strategies to address this gap in our understanding.