Relocating global cities : from the center to the margins / edited by M. Mark Amen, Kevin Archer, and M. Martin Bosman.

Other author Amen, Michael Mark, 1944-
Other author Archer, Kevin, 1957-
Other author Bosman, M. Martin, 1963-
Format Book
Publication InfoLanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, ©2006.
Descriptionxviii, 226 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects
Metropolitan areas--Case studies.
Urbanization--Case studies.
Globalization--Case studies.

Contents Thinking through global cities / M. Mark Amen, Kevin Archer, and M. Martin Bosman -- In London's long shadow : Frankfurt in the European space of flows / Jonathan V. Beaverstock ... [et al.] -- Johannesburg 1986-2030 : a quest to regain world status / Keith S.O. Beavon -- Bangkok : intentional world city / Michael Douglass and Pornpan Boonchuen -- Laboring in the periphery : the place of Manila in the global economy / James A. Tyner -- Place-imaging Tampa in the age of globalization / M. Mark Amen and M. Martin Bosman -- Gentrification, globalization, and governance : the reterritorialization of Sydney's city-state / Scott Salmon -- Reluctant globalizers : the paradoxes of "glocal" development in Brussels / Erik Swyngedouw and Johan Moyersoen -- The processes underlying Caracas as a globalizing city / Miguel Lacabana and Cecilia Cariola -- Reconsidering the social structuration of globalization / M. Mark Amen, Kevin Archer, and M. Martin Bosman.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other formOnline version: Relocating global cities. Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2006
LCCN 2005030129
ISBN0742541215 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780742541214 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0742541223 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN9780742541221 (pbk. : alk. paper)