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Cities in a World Economy examines the emergence of global cities as a new social formation. As sites of rapid and widespread developments in the areas of finance, information and people, global cities lie at the core of the major processes of globalization. The book features a cross-disciplinary approach to urban sociology using global examples, and discusses the impact of global processes on the social structure of cities. The Fifth Edition reflects the most current data available and explores recent debates such as the role of cities in mitigating environmental problems, the global refugee crisis, Brexit, and the rise of Donald Trump in the United States.
National and Transnational Urban Systems
National and Transnational Urban Systems
The trends described in Chapter 2 point to the emergence of a new kind of urban system, one operating at the global and transnational regional levels (Marcotullio and Lo 2001; Taylor 2004; RPA 2007; Derudder et al. 2010; Xu and Yeh 2010; Fainstein and Campbell 2011; Mori Foundation 2011; Bridge and Watson 2011). In this system, cities are crucial nodes for the international coordination and servicing of firms, markets, and even whole economies that are increasingly transnational. Many intersecting and interacting forces make up the world economy, a cross-section of which would reveal several layers of global urban mapping. The wide and far-reaching global network that maps the consumption of globally distributed goods and services ...
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