Capital Cities

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction -- Disciplines, contexts, and categories -- Certain assumptions and hypotheses -- Plan of the book -- 1 History and typology of capital cities -- Preliminary definition -- Functions of capital cities -- Typology of capital cities -- Historical types of capitals -- History and arrangement of national capitals -- 2 Capital city relocation experience -- Principles of capital city siting -- Capital city relocation in empires -- Disembedded capitals: despotic states of the ancient East

3 Capital city relocations and debates of this topic in different world regions -- Generations of national capitals -- Post-colonial nation-building in Africa -- Post-colonial nation-building in Asia -- Southeast Asia -- South Asia -- The Far East -- The Middle East -- Post-colonial nation-building in Latin America -- Post-Soviet countries -- Europe -- 4 Strategies of capital city relocations and their critics -- The common themes in capital city relocations -- Six integrative strategies for capital city relocations -- Three strategies of an exclusive capital city

The budgets and the appraisals of the relocation total costs -- Administration and timetables of capital city shifts -- "The brilliant mistakes" at best: the critique of capital city transfers -- Some counter-arguments in defense of capital city shifts -- Success factors: the good, the bad, and the ugly -- 5 Three standards to assess the effectiveness of a capital city -- Methodologies to assess the role and location of a capital city -- Three standards to assess the effectiveness of a capital city -- Capitals and global cities -- Conclusion -- Selected bibliography -- Appendices -- Index

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