Tabla de Contenidos:
  • PART 1. GLOBAL CITY FORMATION: EMERGENCE OF A CONCEPT AND RESEARCH AGENDA : Prologue : The metropolitan explosion / Peter Hall
  • Divisions of space and time in Europe / Fernand Braudel
  • Urban specialization in the world system: an investigation of historical classes /
  • Nestor Rodriguez and Joe R. Feagin
  • Global city formation in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles: an historical perspective / Janet Abu-Lughod
  • The new international division of labor, multinational corporations, and urban hierarchy / Robert B. Cohen
  • World city formation: an agenda for research and action / John Friedmann and Goetz Wolff
  • The world city hypothesis / John Friedmann
  • PART 2. STRUCTURES, DYNAMICS AND GEOGRAPHIES OF GLOBAL CITY FORMATION : Prologue : 100-mile cities / Deyan Sudjic
  • Cities and communities in the global economy / Saskia Sassen
  • Locating cities on global circuits / Saskia Sassen
  • World city network: a new metageography? / Jonathan V. Beaverstock, Richard G. Smith and Peter J. Taylor
  • Global cities and global classes: the peripheralization of labour in New York City / Robert Ross and Kent Trachte
  • Inequality in global city-regions / Susan S. Fainstein
  • Global grids of glass: on global cities, telecommunications and planetary urban networks / Stephen Graham
  • PART 3. LOCAL PATHWAYS OF GLOBAL CITY FORMATION: CLASSIC AND CONTEMPORARY CASE STUDIES : Prologue : Cities, the informational society and the global economy / Manuel Castells
  • The city as a landscape of power: London and New York as global financial capitals / Sharon Zukin
  • The urban restructuring process in Tokyo during the 1980s: transforming Tokyo into a world city / Takashi Machimura
  • Detroit and Houston: two cities in global perspective / Richard Child Hill and Joe R. Feagin
  • Global city Zurich: paradigms of urban development / Christian Schmid
  • Global cities and developmental states: New York, Tokyo and Seoul / Richard Child Hill and June Woo Kim
  • The stimulus of a little confusion: a contemporary comparison of Amsterdam and Los Angeles Edward W. Soja
  • PART 4. GLOBALIZATION, URBANIZATION AND UNEVEN SPATIAL DEVELOPMENT: PERSPECTIVES ON GLOBAL CITY FORMATION IN/FROM THE GLOBAL SOUTH : Prologue : A global agora vs. gated city-regions / Riccardo Petrella
  • Building, architecture, and the new international division of labor / Anthony D. King
  • The world city hypothesis: reflections from the periphery / David Simon
  • 'Fourth world' cities in the global economy: the case of Phnom Penh, Cambodia / Gavin Shatkin
  • Global and world cities: a view from off the map / Jennifer Robinson
  • Globalization and the corporate geography of cities in the less-developed world / Richard Grant and Jan Nijman
  • São Paulo: outsourcing and downgrading of labor in a globalizing city / Simone Buechler. PART 5. CONTESTED CITIES: STATE RESTRUCTURING, LOCAL POLITICS AND CIVIL SOCIETY : Prologue : The global city as world order / Warren Magnusson
  • Global cities, 'glocal' states: global city formation and state territorial restructuring in contemporary Europe / Neil Brenner
  • World city formation on the Asia-Pacific rim: poverty, 'everyday' forms of civil society and environmental management / Mike Douglass
  • 'Global Cities' vs 'global cities': rethinking contemporary urbanism as public ecology / Timothy Luke
  • The neglected builder of global cities / Anne Haila
  • The globalization of Frankfurt am Main: core, periphery and social conflict / Roger Keil and Klaus Ronneberger
  • Urban social movements in an era of globalization / Margit Mayer
  • PART 6. REPRESENTATION, IDENTITY AND CULTURE IN GLOBAL CITIES: RETHINKING THE LOCAL AND THE GLOBAL : Prologue : Towards cosmopolis: a postmodern agenda / Leonie Sandercock
  • The cultural role of world cities / Ulf Hannerz
  • World cities: Global? Postcolonial? Postimperial? Or just the result of happenstance? Some cultural comments / Anthony D. King
  • 'Global media cities': major nodes of globalizing culture and media industries / Stefan Krätke
  • Willing the global city: Berlin's cultural strategies of inter-urban competition after 1989 / Ute Lehrer
  • Exploring Colombo: the relevance of a knowledge of New York / Nihal Perera
  • Culturing the world city: an exhibition of the global present / Steven Flusty
  • PART 7. EMERGING ISSUES IN GLOBAL CITIES RESEARCH: REFINEMENTS, CRITIQUES AND NEW FRONTIERS : Prologue : Whose city is it? / Saskia Sassen
  • Space in the globalizing city / Peter Marcuse
  • Globalization and the rise of city-regions / Allen J. Scott
  • The global cities discourse: a return to the master narrative? / Michael Peter Smith
  • Immigration and the global city hypothesis: towards an alternative research agenda / Michael Samers
  • Pathways to global city formation: a view from the developmental city-state of Singapore / Kris Olds and Henry Wai-Chung Yeung
  • World city topologies / Richard G. Smith
  • The urban revolution / Henri Lefebvre