Global Urban Analysis provides a unique insight into the contemporary world economy through a focus on cities. It is based upon a large-scale customised data collection on how leading businesses use cities across the world: as headquarter locations; for finance; for professional and creative services; for media. These data - involving up to 2000 firms and over 500 cities - provide evidence for both how the leading cities; sometimes called global cities; are coming to dominate the world economy; and how hundreds of other cities are faring in this brave new urban world. Thus can the likes of London; New York and Hong Kong be tracked as well as Manchester; Cleveland and Guangzhou; and even Plymouth; Chattanooga and Xian. Cities are assessed and ranked in terms of their importance for various functions such as for financial services; legal services and advertising; plus novel findings are reported for the geographical orientations of their connections. This is truly a comprehensive survey of cities in globalization covering global; world-regional; and national scales of analysis: - 4 key chapters outline the global structure of the world economy featuring the leading cities; - 9 regional chapters covering the whole world also feature the level of services provided by medium cities; - 22 chapters on selected countries and sub-regions indicate global-ness and local-ness and feature an even wider range of cities. Written in an easy to understand style; this book is a must read for anybody interested in their own city in the world and how it relates to other cities.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Crafty. intriguing ...By RussIntriguing book in its own right. which led to several others worth reading.
