Cities in globalization practices, policies and theories - Taylor, Peter J. 1944- (2007)
Prologue: A Lineage for Contemporary Inter-City Studies -- 1. Introduction: Cities in Globalization -- Part 1: World City Networks -- 2. Globalization and the World City System: Preliminary Results from a Longitudinal Data Set -- 3. Airline Passenger Flows through Cities: Some New Evidence -- 4. World City Networks from 'Below': International Mobility and Inter-City Relations in the Global Investment Banking Industry -- 5. World Cities and the Internationalization of Design Services -- Part 2: Inter-City Relations in Networks and Systems 6. Urban Network Development Under Conditions of Uncertainty -- 7. City Networks as Tools for Competitiveness and Sustainability -- 8. Firm Linkages, Innovation and the Evolution of Urban Systems -- 9. The Metropolitanization of the European Urban and Regional System -- Part 3: Politics in Inter-City Relations -- 10. Positioning Cities in the World: Towards a Politics of Flow -- 11. Political World Cities: Where Flows through Entwined Multi-State and Transnational Networks Meet Places -- 12. Inter-City Relations and the 'War on Terror' Part 4: Rethinking Cities in Globalization -- 13. Reading the City in a Global Digital Age: Between Topographic Representation and Spatialized Power Projects -- 14. Poststructuralism, Power and the Global City -- 15. The Mismatch between Concepts and Evidence in the Study of a Global Urban Network -- 16. Cities within Spaces of Flows: Theses for a Materialist Understanding of the External Relations of Cities -- 17. How Cities Scientifically (do not) Exist. Methodological Appraisal of Research on Globalizing Processes of Intercity Networking.
Keywords: Cities and towns; Globalization; Cities and towns; Globalization; Globalisierung; Stadt; Internationalisatie; Steden; Netwerken; Stadt; Globalisierung; Gent <2005>