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Global City Challenges

Debating a Concept, Improving the Practice

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  • © 2013

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Editors:
  1. Michele Acuto

    1. University College London, UK

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  2. Wendy Steele

    1. Griffith University, Australia

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction

    • Michele Acuto, Wendy Steele
    Pages 1-14

  3. The Global City Tradition

    • Christof Parnreiter
    Pages 15-32

  4. The Network Dimension

    • Ben Derudder, Michael Hoyler, Peter J. Taylor
    Pages 33-46

  5. The Economic and Financial Dimensions

    • David Bassens
    Pages 47-62

  6. The Historical Dimension

    • Peter Rimmer, Howard Dick
    Pages 63-87

  7. The Postcolonial Dimension

    • Vanessa Watson
    Pages 88-100

  8. The Literary Dimension

    • Sheila Hones
    Pages 101-116

  9. The Virtual Dimension

    • Mark Graham
    Pages 117-139

  10. The Cultural Dimension

    • Oli Mould
    Pages 140-154

  11. The Architectural Dimension

    • Kerwin Datu
    Pages 155-169

  12. The Geopolitical Dimension

    • Michele Acuto
    Pages 170-187

  13. The Security Dimension

    • David Murakami-Wood
    Pages 188-201

  14. Global City Challenges: A View from the Field

    • Glen Searle
    Pages 202-221

  15. Conclusions

    • Michele Acuto, Wendy Steele
    Pages 222-231

  16. Global City Challenges: A Sympathetic Postscript

    • Roger Keil
    Pages 232-236

  17. Back Matter

    Pages 237-278
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The contributors illustrate what twin analytical and practical challenges emerge from juxtaposing cultural, economic, historical, postcolonial, virtual, architectural, literary, security and political stances to the concept of the 'global city'.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University College London, UK

    Michele Acuto

  • Griffith University, Australia

    Wendy Steele

About the editors

Michele Acuto, University of Oxford, UK David Bassens, Free University of Brussels, Belgium Kerwin Datu, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), UK Ben Derudder, Ghent University, Belgium Howard Dick, University of Melbourne, Australia Mark Graham, University of Oxford, UK Sheila Hones, University of Tokyo, Japan Michael Hoyler, Loughborough University, UK Roger Keil, York University, Canada Oli Mould, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Peter Rimmer, Australian National University Glen Searle, University of Queensland, Australia Wendy Steele, Griffith University, Australia Peter J. Taylor, Northumbria University, UK Vanessa Watson, University of Cape Town, South Africa

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