Search Results - "global city"

The global cities reader / edited by Neil Brenner and Roger Keil.

Table of Contents: “…pt. 1. Global city formation: emergence of a concept and research agenda -- pt. 2. …”

Global city-regions : trends, theory, policy / edited by Allen J. Scott.

Struggling giants : city-region governance in London, New York, Paris, and Tokyo / Paul Kantor, Christian Lefevre, Asato Saito, H. V. Savitch, and Andy Thornley. by Kantor, Paul, 1942- author

Table of Contents: “…Four global city-regions : a profile -- Global pressures and governmental innovation -- Strong metropolitan leadership -- Fragmented metropolis, decentralist impulses -- Managed pluralism -- A fragmented and conflicting territory -- Unregulated competitive decentralization -- New challenges, old governance -- World-city policies and the erosion of the developmental state -- Governance and globalism : political responses of four world city-regions.…”

Welcome to the urban revolution : how cities are changing the world / Jeb Brugmann. by Brugmann, Jeb, 1957-

Table of Contents: “…Look again : a view from the expanding edge of the global city -- The improbable life of an urban patc : deciphering the hidden logic of global urban growth -- The great migration : the rise of homo urbanis -- Anatomy of urban revolution : the inevitable democracy of the city -- The tyrants' demise : the irrepressible economics of urban association -- What we can learn from the way that migrants build their cities : buildings, city models, and citysystems -- The final phase : two billion new city dwellers in search of a new urbanism -- Cities of crisis : sources of global vulnerability -- Great opportunities cities : stuck in negotiation -- A planet transformed : urban ecosystem or global dystopia? …”