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Seventeen essays by leading researchers in the area of world cities and the economic factors.

For millennia, urban centers were pivots of power and trade that ruled and linked rural majorities. After 1950, explosive urbanization led to unprecedented urba

The book provides a comprehensive appraisal of the interplay between global structural adjustments and the changing role and configuration of Asia's world citie

The World’s Cities offers instructors and students in higher education an accessible introduction to the three major perspectives influencing city-regions wor