TY - BOOK AU - Sassen,Saskia TI - Global networks, linked cities SN - 0415931622 (alk. paper) AV - HT 321 .G55 2002 PY - 2002/// CY - New York PB - Routledge KW - Collection Mondialisation KW - Cas, ?? tudes de KW - Collections de l'INSEE KW - S�erie E KW - Rs� eaux d'ordinateurs KW - Urban economics KW - Case studies KW - Globalization KW - Computers and civilization KW - Information technology KW - Economic aspects KW - Business enterprises KW - Computer networks KW - ???�conomie urbaine KW - Cas, ???�tudes de KW - Ordinateurs et civilization KW - Technologie de l'information KW - Aspect c��?�onomique N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: Locating cities on global circuits; Saskia Sassen --; Part I: The urban architecture of global networks --; Architecture of global networking technologies; D. Linda Garca��?� --; Communication grids: cities and infrastructure; Stephen Graham --; Firms and their global service networks; Peter J. Taylor, D.R.F. Walker, J.V. Beaverstock --; Hierarchies of dominance among world cities: a network approach; David Smith, Michael Timberlake --; Part II: Cross-border regions --; Mexico: the making of a global city; Christof Parnreiter --; Hormuz corridor: building a cross-border region between Iran and the United Arab Emirates; Ali Parsa, Ramin Keivani --; So��?� Paulo: articulating a cross-border region; Sueli Ramos Schiffer --; Beirut: building regional circuits; Eric Huybrechts --; Part III: Network nodes --; Hong Kong: global capital exchange; David R. Meyer --; Shanghai: reconnecting to the global economy; Felicity Rose Gu, Zilai Tang --; Buenos Aires: sociospacial impacts of the development of global city functions; Pablo Ciccolella, Iliana Mignaqui --; Local networks: digital city Amsterdam; Patrice Riemens, Geert Lovink ER -