Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Sighting or slighting cities in international relations
  • The emerging global landscape and the new role of the globalizing city regions
  • Paradiplomacy in the developing world: the case of Brazil
  • The emergence of cross-border regions and Canadian-United States relations
  • The evolution of city indicators: challenges and progress
  • Auditing cities through circles of sustainability
  • Cities, the environment, and global governance: a political ecological perspective
  • Cities and global environmental NGOs: emerging transnational urban networks?
  • The global city today: advantages of specialization and costs of financialization
  • World city networks: measurement, social organization, global governance, and structural change
  • Concluding remarks.