a ISBN 0-521-48165-1

a ISBN 0-521-48470-7

a Original cataloging agency NEU GrandLibrary

a Classification number HT330

b Item number .M37 1995

a Dewey Classification 307.76/4

a Title World cities in a world-system /

c Statement of responsibility, etc edited by Paul L. Knox and Peter J. Taylor.

h Medium BOOK

a Place of publication, distribution, etc Cambridge ;

a Place of publication, distribution, etc New York :

b Name of publisher, distributor, etc Cambridge University Press,

c Date of publication, distribution, etc c1995.

a Extent xi, 335 p. :

b Other physical details ill., map ;

c Dimensions 23 cm.

a Formatted contents note 1. World cities in a world-system / Paul L. Knox -- 2. Where we stand: a decade of world city research / John Friedmann -- 3. World cities and territorial states: the rise and fall of their mutuality / Peter J. Taylor -- 4. On concentration and centrality in the global city / Saskia Sassen -- 5. Cities in global matrices: toward mapping the world-system's city system / David A. Smith and Michael Timberlake -- 6. World cities, multinational corporations, and urban hierarchy: the case of the United States / Donald Lyons and Scott Salmon -- 7. Transport and the world city paradigm / David J. Keeling -- 8. The world city hypothesis: reflections from the periphery / David Simon -- 9. Global logics in the Caribbean city system: the case of Miami / Ramon Grosfoguel -- 10. Comparing Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles: testing some world cities hypotheses / Janet Lippman Abu-Lughod -- 11. 'Going global' in the semi-periphery: world cities as political projects. The case of Toronto / Graham Todd -- 12. Re-presenting world cities: cultural theory/social practice / Anthony D. King -- 13. Theorizing the global-local connection / Robert A. Beauregard -- 14. The disappearance of world cities and the globalization of local politics / Michael Peter Smith -- 15. World cities and global communities: the municipal foreign policy movement and new roles for cities / Andrew Kirby, Sallie Marston and Kenneth Seasholes -- 16. The environmental problematic in world cities / Roger Keil -- 17. The successful management and administration of world cities: mission impossible? / Peter M. Ward -- Appendix: the world city hypothesis / John Friedmann.

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Metropolitan areas

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element International economic relations

a Personal name Knox Paul L

a Personal name Taylor, Peter J.,

d Dates associated with a name 1944-