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1 online resource (xxvi, 447 pages) |
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online resource cr |
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Edition |
2nd ed. |
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Previous edition: 1991. |
Contents |
One Overview -- PART ONE: THE GEOGRAPHY AND COMPOSITION OF GLOBALIZATION -- Two Dispersal and New Forms of Centralization -- Mobility and Agglomeration -- Capital Mobility and Labor Market Formation -- Conclusion -- Three New Patterns in Foreign Direct Investment -- Major Patterns -- International Transactions in Services -- Conclusion -- Four Internationalization and Expansion of the Financial Industry -- Conditions and Components of Growth -- The Global Capital Market Today -- Financial Crises -- Conclusion -- PART TWO: THE ECONOMIC ORDER OF THE GLOBAL CITY -- Five The Producer Services -- The Category Services -- The Spatial Organization of Finance -- New Forms of Centrality -- Conclusion -- Six Global Cities: Postindustrial Production Sites -- Location of Producer Services: Nation, Region, and City -- New Elements in the Urban Hierarchy -- Conclusion -- Seven Elements of a Global Urban System: Networks and Hierarchies -- Towards Networked Systems -- Expansion and Concentration -- Leading Currencies in International Transactions -- The International Property Market -- Conclusion -- PART THREE: THE SOCIAL ORDER OF THE GLOBAL CITY -- Eight Employment and Earnings -- Three Cities, One Tale? -- Earnings -- Conclusion -- Nine Economic Restructuring as Class and Spatial Polarization -- Overall Effects of Leading Industries -- Social Geography -- Consumption -- Casual and Informal Labor Markets -- Race and Nationality in the Labor Market -- IN CONCLUSION -- Ten A New Urban Regime? -- Epilogue -- The Global City Model -- The Financial Order -- The Producer Services -- Social and spatial polarization. |
ISBN |
9781400847488 (electronic bk.) |
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1400847486 (electronic bk.) |
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1400847486 |
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0691070636 |
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9780691070636 |
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