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From the outset global cities have been primarily seen as outcomes of changes in global economic capitalism. This has led to critical responses arguing for the need to consider more centrally the role of politics in global city formation, and in particular the need to critically…

This dissertation is a quantitative study of the spatial business strategies of 130 late medieval and 16th-century European commercial and banking firms, the business networks of which have been put together for a structural analysis of the European city network between ca. 1300…

The Dissertation utilizes the concept of "Sacred Global Cities" to analyze Rome (Italy), Mecca (Saudi Arabia), and Jerusalem (Israel). It expands the notion of national imagined communities to include global imagined communities epitomized by Islam and Christianity. Looked at in…