World CityISBN: 978-0-7456-4060-0
Paperback
272 pages
September 2007, Polity
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Acknowledgements vii
Preface: After the Crash ix
Introduction: ‘the future of our world’? 1
Part I Inventing a world city 27
1 Capital delight 29
2 ‘A successful city, but . . .’ 54
3 Imagining the city 73
Part II The world city in the country 95
4 The golden goose? 97
5 An alternative regional geography 114
6 Who owes whom? 130
7 Reworking the geographies of allegiance 149
Part III The world city in the world 163
8 Grounding the global 165
9 Identity, place, responsibility 177
10 A politics of place beyond place 188
Concluding reflections 211
Notes 218
References 232
Index 251
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