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Global metropolitan : globalizing cities in a capitalist world /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Short, John R.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.
Series:Questioning cities series.
Subjects:
Metropolitan areas.
Urbanization.
Globalization.
Cosmopolitanism.
City dwellers > Social conditions.
City dwellers > Economic conditions.
City and town life.
Table of Contents:
  • Globalization and the city
  • From world cities to globalizing cities
  • Globalizing cities
  • Black holes and loose connections
  • Tensions in the global city
  • The modalities of the global city
  • Going for gold: globalizing the Olympics, localizing the games
  • The super-rich and the global city
  • The global, the city and the body.