Global metropolitan [electronic resource] : globalizing cities in a capitalist world / John Rennie Short.
Material type: TextSeries: Questioning cities seriesPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.Description: viii, 146 p. : illISBN:- 9780203508657 (e-book : PDF)
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Includes bibliographical references ([131]-139) and index.
1. Introduction -- 2. Globalization and the city -- 3. From world cities to globalizing cities -- 4. Globalizing cities -- 5. Black holes and loose connections -- 6. Tensions in the global city -- 7. The modalities of the global city -- 8. Going for gold : globalizing the Olympics, localizing the Games -- 9. The super-rich and the global city -- 10. The global, the city and the body.
Also available in print edition.
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