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050 00 $aHT151$b.J223 2013
082 00 $a307.76$223
100 1 $aJacobs, A. J.$q(Andrew James),$d1963-
245 14 $aThe world's cities :$bcontrasting regional, national, and global perspectives /$c[edited by] A.J. Jacobs.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bRoutledge,$c2013.
300 $axix, 397 p. :$bill., maps ;$c25 cm.
490 0 $aMetropolis and modern life
505 0 $aIntroduction: cities and regions evolving in an ever changing world / A.J. Jacobs -- City-regions in a world system -- City-regions in a world system : an overview / A.J. Jacobs -- Where we stand : a decade of world city research / John Friedmann -- Cities in a world economy / Saskia Sassen -- A global network analysis of 234 cities / B. Derudder, P. Taylor, F. Witlox, G. Catalano -- Mexico City : the making of a global city? / Christof Parnreiter -- Location theory in reverse? : IT production in the Bangalore, India / Rolee Aranya -- Building Shanghai : historical lessons from China's gateway / Edward Denison -- Race, space and spatial order in Johannesburg / Owen Crankshaw -- Global Dubai or dubaization / Yasser Elsheshtawy -- Nested city-regions -- The nested city / Richard Child Hill & Kuniko Fujita -- New York, Chicago, Los Angeles : America's global cities / Janet L. Abu-Lughod -- Race, fragmentation, and divergent outcomes in Detroit & Toronto / A.J. Jacobs -- Planning Taipei / Chia-Huang Wang -- Expanding income stratification in the Tokyo region / A.J. Jacobs -- Experiencing Jakarta / Chris Silver -- Actor networks and hybrid developmental states : Malaysia's multimedia super-corridor and New York's Silicon alley / Michael Indergaard -- Ulsan : South Korea's great industrial city / A.J. Jacobs.
650 0 $aCities and towns.
650 0 $aCities and town$xGrowth.
650 0 $aUrban economics.