Global urban analysis : a survey of cities in globalization /
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 service...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
London ; Washington, DC :
Earthscan,
2011.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | 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 Lon. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvi, 438 pages) : illustrations |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9781136539282 113653928X 1849775419 9781849775410 |