World Cities in a World-System
Cambridge University Press
Edition: Illustrated, 2/22/2010
EAN 9780521484701, ISBN10: 0521484707
Paperback, 348 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm
Language: English
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.
Preface
Part I. Introduction
World City, Hypothesis and Context
1. World cities in a world-system Paul L. Knox
2. Where we stand
a decade of world city research John Friedmann
3. World cities and territorial states
the rise and fall of their mutuality Peter J. Taylor
4. On concentration and centrality in the global city Saskia Sassen
Part II. Cities in Systems
5. Cities in global matrices
toward mapping the world-system's city system David A. Smith and Michael Timberlake
6. World cities, multinational corporations, and urban hierarchy
the case of the United States Donald Lyons and Scott Salmon
7. Transport and the world city paradigm David J. Keeling
8. The world city hypothesis
reflections from the periphery David Salmon
9. Global logics in the Caribbean city system
the case of Miami Ramón Grosfoguel
10. Comparing Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles
testing some world cities hypotheses Janet Lippman Abu-Lughod
11. 'Going global' in the semi-periphery
world cities as political projects
the case of Toronto Graham Todd
Part III. Politics and Policy in World Cities
Theory and Practice
12. Re-presenting world cities
cultural theory/social practice Anthony D. King
13. Theorizing the global-local connection Robert A. Beauregard
14. The disappearance of world cities and the globalization of local politics Michael Peter Smith
15. World cities and global communities
the municipal foreign policy movement and new roles for cities Andrew Kirby and Sallie Marston, with Kenneth Seasholes
16. The environmental problematic in world cities Roger Keil
17. The successful management and administration of world cities
mission impossible? Peter M. Ward
Appendix
the world city hypothesis John Friedmann
Index.