World Cities in a World-System

World Cities in a World-System
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 356
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ISBN-10 : 0521484707
ISBN-13 : 9780521484701
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Download or read book World Cities in a World-System written by Paul L. Knox and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-07-06 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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