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Global Urban Analysis By:"Peter J Taylor","Pengfei Ni","Ben Derudder","Michael Hoyler","Jin Huang","Frank Witlox" Published on 2012-06-25 by Routledge E-book Library:"Architecture" Global Urban Analysis provides a unique insight into the contemporary world economy through a focus on cities. It is based upon a large-scale customised data collection on how leading businesses use cities across the world: as headquarter locations, for finance, for professional and creative services, for media. These data - involving up to 2000 firms and over 500 cities - provide evidence for both how the leading cities, sometimes called global cities, are coming to dominate the world economy, and how hundreds of other cities are faring in this brave new urban world. Thus can the likes of London, New York and Hong Kong be tracked as well as Manchester, Cleveland and Guangzhou, and even Plymouth, Chattanooga and Xi'an. Cities are asses...

Cities, Networks, and Global Environmental Governance By:"Sofie Bouteligier" Published on 2012-12-12 by Routledge E-book Library:"Political Science" As a result of global dynamics—the increasing interconnection of people and places—innovations in global environmental governance haved altered the role of cities in shaping the future of the planet. This book is a timely study of the importance of these social transformations in our increasingly global and increasingly urban world. Through analysis of transnational municipal networks, such as Metropolis and the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group, Sofie Bouteligier's innovative study examines theories of the network society and global cities from a global ecology perspective. Through direct observation and interviews and using two types of city networks that have been treated separately in the literature, she discovers the structure and logic pertaining to office networks of environmental non-governmental organizat...

ICTs for Mobile and Ubiquitous Urban Infrastructures: Surveillance, Locative Media and Global Networks By:"Firmino, Rodrigo J." Published on 2010-10-31 by IGI Global E-book Library:"Business & Economics" \ This Book was ranked 32 by Google Books for keyword city network. Thank you Smart City Guides