Cities in a world economy

Place and production in the global economy

The urban impact of economic globalization : The global economy today ; Strategic places ; Conclusion: After the Pax Americana

National and transnational urban systems : Global patterns of urbanization ; Urbanization in Africa today ; Urbanization in Asia today ; Impacts on primate systems: the case of Latin America and the Caribbean ; Impacts on balanced urban systems: the case of Europe ; Transnational urban systems ; Global cities and immigration ; Global cities and diaspora networks ; A politics of places on global circuits ; Conclusion: Urban growth and its multiple meanings

The new urban economy: the intersection of global processes and place : From the Keynesian city to the global city ; The multiple circuits of the global economy ; The specialized differences of cities matter: there is no perfect global city ; The global city as a postindustrial production site ; The formation of a new production complex ; Corporate headquarters and cities ; An emerging global labor market ; Growing segmentation in the global labor market ; Conclusion: Cities as postindustrial production sites

Issues and case studies in the new urban economy : The development of global city functions: the case of Miami ; The growing density and specialization of functions in financial districts: Toronto ; The concentration of functions and geographic scale: Sydney ; Competition or specialized differences: the financial centers of Hong Kong and Shanghai ; Making new global circuits in energy and finance: the Gulf States ; An old imperial city in today's east-west geopolitics: Istanbul ; Globalization and concentration: the case of leading financial centers ; Why do financial centers still exist in the global digital era? ; In the digital era: more concentration than dispersal ; The space economy of centrality ; Towards novel spatial formats: global cities and megaregions

The new inequalities within cities : Transformations in the organization of the labor process ; The informal economy ; The earnings distribution in a service-dominated economy ; The restructuring of urban consumption ; Conclusion: A widening gap

Global cities and global survival circuits : Women in the global economy ; Localizing the global ; The other workers in the advanced corporate economy ; Producing a global supply of the new caretakers: the feminization of survival ; Alternative survival circuits

The urbanizing of global governance challenges : Cities as frontier spaces for global governance ; Bridging the ecologies of cities and of the biosphere ; When finance has urban space ; When pursuing national security is the making of urban insecurity

A new geography of centers and margins : Summary and implications