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1 International Edited by Ben Derudder Ghent University, Belgium Michael Hoyler Loughborough University, UK Northumbria University, UK Frank Witlox Ghent University, Belgium Edward Elgar Cheltenham, UK Northampton, MA, USA

2 Contents List of contributors ix 1 Introduction: a relational urban studies 1 Ben Derudder, Michael Hoyler, and Frank Witlox PARTI ANTECEDENTS IA Histories 2 Historical world city networks 9 3 Cities in the making of world hegemonies 22, Michael Hoyler and Dennis Smith 4 Imperialism and world cities 31 Anthony D. King 5 Political global cities 40 Herman van der Wusten IB Contemporary concepts 6 The interlocking network model 51 7 On city cooperation and city competition 64 8 Global city/world city 73 Ben Derudder, Anneleen De Vos and Frank Witlox 9 Spatial transformations of cities: global city-region? Mega-city region? 83 Kathy Pain IC Relational empirics 10 World cities and airline networks 97 Tony H. Grubesic and Timothy C. Matisziw 11 Internet networks of world cities: agglomeration and dispersion 117 Edward J. Malecki 12 Corporate networks of world cities 126 Arthur S. Alder son and Jason Beckfield 13 Advanced producer servicing networks of world cities 135, Ben Derudder, Michael Hoyler and Frank Witlox

3 vi International handbook of globalization and world cities PART II WORLD CITY ANALYSES IIA World city infrastructures 14 Airports: from flying fields to twenty-first century aerocities 151 LucyC.S. Budd 15 Global cities, office markets and capital flows 162 Colin Lizieri 16 International trade fairs and world cities: temporary vs. permanent clusters 177 Harald Bathelt 17 Mega-events: urban spectaculars and globalization 188 John Rennie Short 18 Cyberinfrastructures and 'smart' world cities: physical, human and soft infrastructures 198 Andrew Boulton, Stanley D. Brunn and Lomme Devriendt II B World city economies 19 Centrality, hierarchy and heterarchy of worldwide corporate networks 209 Ronald Wall and Bert van der Knaap 20 Business knowledges within and between the world city 230 James Faulconbridge and Sarah Hall 21 Highly skilled international labour migration and world cities: expatriates, executives and entrepreneurs 240 Jonathan V. Beaverstock 22 Grasping the spatial paradoxes of finance: theoretical lessons from the case of Amsterdam 251 Ewald Engelen 23 The cultural economy and the global city 265 Andy C. Pratt 24 Starchitects, starchitecture and the symbolic capital of world cities 275 Paul Knox 25 How global are the 'global media'? Analysing the networked urban geographies of transnational media corporations 284 Allan Watson 26 World cities of sex 295 Phil Hubbard II C World city governance 27 Global city-region governance, ten years on 309 John Harrison 28 Cities and sustainability: reflections on a decade of world development 318 Kathy Pain 29 Planning for world cities: shifting agendas and differing politics 328 Peter Newman and Andy Thornley

4 Contents vii 30 Surveillance in the world city 336 David Murakami Wood 31 Global cities and infectious disease 347 Harris AH and Roger Keil IID World city divisions 32 Urban social polarization 361 Chris Hamnett 33 Gentrifying the world city 369 Loretta Lees 34 The privileged world city: private banking, wealth management and the bespoke servicing of the global super-rich 378 Jonathan V. Beaverstock 35 Global workers for global cities: low paid migrant labour in London 390 Kavita Datta, Cathy Mcllwaine, Joanna Herbert, Yara Evans, Jon May and Jane Wills 36 Cultural diasporas 398 Caroline Nagel 37 Suburbanization and global cities 408 Roger Keil PART III WORLD CITY CASE STUDIES 38 NY-LON 421 Richard G. Smith 39 Shanghai, Beijing and Hong Kong within a financial centre network 429 Karen P. Y. Lai 40 More than an ordinary city: the role of Mexico City in global commodity chains 437 ChristofParnreiter 41 Mumbai as a global city: a theoretical essay 447 Jan Nijman 42 Accra: a globalizing city 455 Richard Grant 43 Geographies of power in the Indonesia-Malaysia-Singapore Growth Triangle 465 Tim Bunnell, Carl Grundy- Wctrr, James D. Sidaway and Matthew Sparke 44 Randstad Holland: probing hierarchies and interdependencies in a polycentric world city region 476 Bart Lamhregts and Robert Kloosterman 45 From national capital to dismal political world city: the politics of scalar disarticulation in Brussels 487 Stijn Oosterlynck 46 Las Vegas: more than a one-dimensional world city? 497 Robert E. Lang and Christina Nicholas

5 viii International handbook of globalization and world cities 47 South Florida: world city, edgeless city 508 Robert E. Lang and Christina Nicholas 48 Marked by dynamics: Berlin and Warsaw in the process of functional change 517 Ewa Korcelli-Olejniczak 49 'The world city concept travels East': on excessive imagination and limited urban sustainability in UAE world cities 530 David Bassens 50 Sydney: the wicked power-geometry of a greening global city 538 Michele Acuto Index 551

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