Global networks, linked cities /
edited by Saskia Sassen.
- New York : Routledge, 2002.
- vii, 368 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Locating cities on global circuits / Architecture of global networking technologies / Communication grids: cities and infrastructure / Firms and their global service networks / Hierarchies of dominance among world cities: a network approach / Mexico: the making of a global city / Hormuz corridor: building a cross-border region between Iran and the United Arab Emirates / So��?� Paulo: articulating a cross-border region / Beirut: building regional circuits / Hong Kong: global capital exchange / Shanghai: reconnecting to the global economy / Buenos Aires: sociospacial impacts of the development of global city functions / Local networks: digital city Amsterdam / Saskia Sassen -- D. Linda Garca��?� -- Stephen Graham -- Peter J. Taylor, D.R.F. Walker, J.V. Beaverstock -- David Smith, Michael Timberlake -- Christof Parnreiter -- Ali Parsa, Ramin Keivani -- Sueli Ramos Schiffer -- Eric Huybrechts -- David R. Meyer -- Felicity Rose Gu, Zilai Tang -- Pablo Ciccolella, Iliana Mignaqui -- Patrice Riemens, Geert Lovink. Part I: The urban architecture of global networks -- Part II: Cross-border regions -- Part III: Network nodes --
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