Global City - Regions: Trends, Theory, Policy

Introduction by Allen f. Scott p.1, Part I: Opening Arguments: Global City Regions by Allen f. Scott, John Agnew, Edward W. Soja, and Michael Storper p.11, Part II: On Practical Questions of Globalization and City Region Development: Three Plenary Addresses: How to Invite Prosperity from the Global Economy Into a Region by Kenichi Ohmae p.33, The World Bank and Global City Regions: Reaching the Poor by James D. Wolfensohn p.44, Quebec in an Era of Global City Regions by Lucien Bouchard p.50, Part III: The Global City Region: A New Geographic Phenomenon? : Global City Regions in the Twenty first Century by Sir Peter Hall p.59, Global Cities and Global City Regions: A Comparison by Saskia Sassen p.78, The Economic Role and Spatial Contradictions of Global City Regions: The Functional, Cognitive, and Evolutionary Context by Roberto Camagni p.96, Intercity Networks in a Globalizing Era by John Friedmann p.119, Part IV: The Competitive Advantages of Global City Regions: Regions and the New Economics of Competition by Michael E. Porter p.139, Ontario as a North American Region State, Toronto as a Global City Region: Responding to the NAFTA Challenge by Thomas J. Courchene p.158, Part V: Global City Regions in Africa, Asia, and Latin America: Political and Economic Challenges: Local Governance and Social Diversity in the Developing World: New Challenges for Globalizing City Regions by Richard Stren p.193, Innovation and Risk-taking: Urban Governance in Latin America by Tim Campbell p.214, Intercity Competition and the Question of Economic Resilience: Globalization and Crisis in Asia by Michael Douglass p.236, Repositioning of City Regions: Korea after the Crisis by Won Bae Kim p.263, Part VI: Social Inequalities and Immigrant Niches in Global City Regions Inequality in Global City Regions by Susan S. Fainstein p.285, The Immigrant Niche in Global City-Regions: Concept, Patterns, Controversy by Roger Waldinger p.299, Part VII: Questions of citizenship: Urban Citizenship and Globalization by James Holston p.325, Istanbul's Conflicting Paths to Citizenship: Islamization and Globalization by Engin F. Isin p.349, Part VIII: The New Collective Order of Global City Regions: Governing Cities and Regions: Territorial Restructuring in a Global Age by Michael Keating p.371, Lessons from Silicon Valley: Governance in a Global City Region by Douglas Henton p.391, Local Governance and Conflict Management: Reflections on a Brazilian Cluster by Hubert Schmitz p.401, Part IX: Coda: Environmental Issues : Environmental Sustain ability and Services in Developing Global City Regions by Theodore Panayotou p.419

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