Cities in a World EconomyThe Third Edition of Cities in a World Economy shows how certain characteristics of our turn-of-the-millennium flows of money, information, and people have led to the emergence of a new social formation: global cities. These developments give new meaning to such fixtures of urban sociology as the centrality of place and the importance of geography in our social world. |
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The Urban Impact of Economic Globalization | 15 |
National and Transnational Urban Systems | 45 |
Urban Growth and Its Multiple Meanings | 55 |
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