Global City Challenges

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction

   • Michele Acuto, Wendy Steele

   Pages 1-14

3. The Global City Tradition

   • Christof Parnreiter

   Pages 15-32

4. The Network Dimension

   • Ben Derudder, Michael Hoyler, Peter J. Taylor

   Pages 33-46

5. The Economic and Financial Dimensions

   • David Bassens

   Pages 47-62

6. The Historical Dimension

   • Peter Rimmer, Howard Dick

   Pages 63-87

7. The Postcolonial Dimension

   • Vanessa Watson

   Pages 88-100

8. The Literary Dimension

   • Sheila Hones

   Pages 101-116

9. The Virtual Dimension

   • Mark Graham

   Pages 117-139

10. The Cultural Dimension

    • Oli Mould

    Pages 140-154

11. The Architectural Dimension

    • Kerwin Datu

    Pages 155-169

12. The Geopolitical Dimension

    • Michele Acuto

    Pages 170-187

13. The Security Dimension

    • David Murakami-Wood

    Pages 188-201

14. Global City Challenges: A View from the Field

    • Glen Searle

    Pages 202-221

15. Conclusions

    • Michele Acuto, Wendy Steele

    Pages 222-231

16. Global City Challenges: A Sympathetic Postscript

    • Roger Keil

    Pages 232-236

17. Back Matter

    Pages 237-278

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The contributors illustrate what twin analytical and practical challenges emerge from juxtaposing cultural, economic, historical, postcolonial, virtual, architectural, literary, security and political stances to the concept of the 'global city'.

• city
• geopolitics
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• urban geography and urbanism

• University College London, UK

  Michele Acuto

• Griffith University, Australia

  Wendy Steele

Michele Acuto, University of Oxford, UK David Bassens, Free University of Brussels, Belgium Kerwin Datu, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), UK Ben Derudder, Ghent University, Belgium Howard Dick, University of Melbourne, Australia Mark Graham, University of Oxford, UK Sheila Hones, University of Tokyo, Japan Michael Hoyler, Loughborough University, UK Roger Keil, York University, Canada Oli Mould, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Peter Rimmer, Australian National University Glen Searle, University of Queensland, Australia Wendy Steele, Griffith University, Australia Peter J. Taylor, Northumbria University, UK Vanessa Watson, University of Cape Town, South Africa

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