Paul KnoxCambridge University PressEdition: Illustrated, 2/22/2010EAN 9780521484701, ISBN10: 0521484707Paperback, 348 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.2 cmLanguage: EnglishCities 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.PrefacePart I. IntroductionWorld City, Hypothesis and Context1. World cities in a world-system Paul L. Knox2. Where we standa decade of world city research John Friedmann3. World cities and territorial statesthe rise and fall of their mutuality Peter J. Taylor4. On concentration and centrality in the global city Saskia SassenPart II. Cities in Systems5. Cities in global matricestoward mapping the world-system's city system David A. Smith and Michael Timberlake6. World cities, multinational corporations, and urban hierarchythe case of the United States Donald Lyons and Scott Salmon7. Transport and the world city paradigm David J. Keeling8. The world city hypothesisreflections from the periphery David Salmon9. Global logics in the Caribbean city systemthe case of Miami Ramón Grosfoguel10. Comparing Chicago, New York, and Los Angelestesting some world cities hypotheses Janet Lippman Abu-Lughod11. 'Going global' in the semi-peripheryworld cities as political projectsthe case of Toronto Graham ToddPart III. Politics and Policy in World CitiesTheory and Practice12. Re-presenting world citiescultural theory/social practice Anthony D. King13. Theorizing the global-local connection Robert A. Beauregard14. The disappearance of world cities and the globalization of local politics Michael Peter Smith15. World cities and global communitiesthe municipal foreign policy movement and new roles for cities Andrew Kirby and Sallie Marston, with Kenneth Seasholes16. The environmental problematic in world cities Roger Keil17. The successful management and administration of world citiesmission impossible? Peter M. WardAppendixthe world city hypothesis John FriedmannIndex.
