Global Cities and Global Order
This volume investigates the changing nature of cities in the international system, and their increasing prominence in global governance and global order.
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- Full title :Global Cities and Global Order / Simon Curtis.
Summary
This volume investigates the changing nature of cities in the international system, and their increasing prominence in global governance and global order.
Read More ↓Edition Statements
- Publication Date:2016.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2016.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (237 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780191061592, 019106159X, 9780192511942, 0192511947, 9780191804007, 0191804002
- oclc:ocn965167216
- LC Classification:HT151
- Dewey Decimal:307.76
Table of Contents
Cover; Global Cities and Global Order; Copyright; Preface: Ny-Lon-Kong; Acknowledgements; Contents; The Argument; List of Illustrations; Introduction:; City Renaissance; Cities and States in History; An Urban Age; Theorizing the City; Three Themes; Socio-Technical Assemblages; The Dialectic of Territory and Capital; Theorizing International Order; Outline of the Book; 1: Mutations in Urban Form; The Nature of Cities; The City as Abstraction; Cities of Capital and Industry; The City as Institution; Cityspace; Proto-cities; Agrarian Cities; Industrial Cities; The Post-metropolis.
The Form of the Global City; Nodes; Regions; Networks; 2: Theorizing Global Cities; Transhistorical or Late-Modern Phenomenon?; Theories of the Global City; The World City Hypothesis; Globalization and the Global City; Network and Relational Approaches to Global Cities; 'Splintering' Urban Space and the Retreat of National Integration; 3: Cities, States, and International Systems; International Systems in World History; Theorizing International Change; Institutional Competition; Units, Structures, and Patterns of Organization; The Spatial and Temporal Structures of International Systems.
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