Discontiguous Growth: Edge City, Global City or Both? Agustin Rodriguez Bachiller. 21.Telecommunications and Sustainable Cities. The Future of Transportation: Mobility and Infrastructure. It seeks at once to define the question of global city-regions and to describe the internal and external dynamics that shape them it proposes a theorization of global city-regions based on their economic and political responses to intensifying levels of globalization and it offers a number of policyinsights into the severe social problems. Cybercities and Regional Spaces: Some Issues Raised. Global Cities and their Emerging Cultures of Governance. The Tokyo City Region, Japan Yuichi Tekeuchi. The Taipei City Region, Taiwan, Nein Hsiung Kuo. 11.Seattle and the Central Puget Sount, USA, Anne Vernez Moudon and Le Roy Heckman.

The Sao Paulo City Region, Brazil, Gilda Collet Bruna. The Santiago City Region, Chile, Francisco Sabatini. The San Diego Region, USA, Michael Stepner and Paul Fiske. 7.The Randstad, Holland, Leo Tummers and Pieter Schrijnen. The Madrid City Region, Spain, Jose Maria Ezquiaga Dominguez. 5.The Boston City Region, USA, Rosalind Greenstein and Jemelie Robertson. 4.The Bangkok City region, Thailand, Utis Kaothien and Douglas Webster. The Ankara City Region, Turkey Raci, Bademli. Planning the City Region: A Short History of Western Practice Editors. Graeme Blair, Alexander Coppock, and Macartan Humphreys

'A multi-disciplinary tour de force that should be read not only by regional economists but also by urban geographers, sociologists, and planners.'- Development and Change It incorporates a herculean research effort.'-Susan Fainstein, Journal of the American Planning Association are sobering.'-Rudolf Klein, Times Literary Supplement 'The most detailed and sophisticated anatomy yet published of the functioning of the new producer services sector in the global economy.'-Mark Levine, Urban Affairs Quarterly 'A landmark study in the political economy of cities.'-Anthony King, Newsline Sassen shows how dangerously city life has been affected by the influx of employees of the multinational firms which move into major cities and virtually colonize them, riving even greater wedges between the rich and poor.'- The Observer ' high-powered and at times horrific book. A systematic detailed analysis of the three largest urban economies in the advanced world.'-Peter Hall, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 'This is brilliant stuff, both in its broadness of sociological scope and its voluminous collection of data from a vast number of sources in the three cities.'-Scott Lash, The Times Higher Education Supplement

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