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Este capítulo tiene por objetivo analizar el gobierno de la ciudad de México y la gestión que realiza, con el fin de aportar elementos para un estudio comparativo de los distintos sistemas de gobierno metropolitano que existen en la... more
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      Global citiesMexico CityMetropolitan GovernanceZona Metropolitana de la Ciudad de México
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      Global citiesMesoamerican ArchaeologyTeotihuacanAncient Urbanism
In recent years, Persian Gulf cities have become symbols of the most spectacular forms of the ‘globalization of urbanization’. Current scholarship has sought to situate these cities in transnational processes and linkages with... more
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      GlobalizationUrban HistoryGlobal citiesThe Persian Gulf
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W artykule podjęto próbę określenia znaczenia przemysłu spotkań w kształtowaniu potencjału miast. W tym celu stworzono dwa syntetyczne rankingi mierzące potencjał ekonomiczny i turystyczny światowych metropolii. Porównano z nimi pozycje... more
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      Global citiesCities and globalization/Global citiesUrban TourismCities
The article introduces Urban Food Policies (UFP) in the field of decentralized cooperation as a relatively new field of work, exchange and action-oriented research within and between cities, and local authorities in the global North... more
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      Urban GeographyFood SafetyGlobal citiesAfrica
14th Annual Society for Heterodox Economists (SHE) Conference: UNSW Business School, University of New South Wales.
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      Urban PoliticsGlobal citiesRegional and Local GovernanceUrban Political Economy
Evoking the painful failure of overcoming the fallout of centuries of slavery in the United States and conjuring up the specter of state-enforced apartheid in South Africa, “segregation” nowadays appears to be almost ubiquitously... more
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      HistoryModern HistorySociologyGeography
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      GlobalizationImmigrationGlobal citiesJacques Rancière
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Canadian immigration and refugee laws have evolved significantly in the last twenty years; Canada now has some of the most lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) friendly immigration and refugee legislation in the world. Sexual... more
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      ImmigrationGlobal citiesMigrationImmigration Law
Due to globalization, cultural spaces are now developing with no tangible connection to geographical place. The territorial logic traditionally used to underpin architecture and envision our built environment is being radically altered,... more
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      GlobalizationGlobal citiesPlace-Identity (Architecture)Global Studies
The world population is now half urban, and this paper examines the growth of the very largest cities in the world mega-cities, that is cities with a population of 10 million and above. The paper then goes on to critique the shifting and... more
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Mesmo não sendo algo tão novo, cidades e estados têm atuado nas relações internacionais de forma mais visível nos últimos tempos. Por meio da paradiplomacia, governos subnacionais, representados por seus prefeitos e governadores, formam... more
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      Global citiesFederalismInternational CooperationCities and globalization/Global cities
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      PovertySpace and PlaceSovereigntyGlobal cities
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      Space and PlaceUrban AnthropologyGlobal citiesUruguay
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      Global citiesUrban PlanningGreen architectureGreen Building
Города всегда концентрировали капитал — от человеческих талантов до финансовых ресурсов. Творческое, научное и бизнес-сообщество — визитные карточки глобальных мегаполисов и самые сильные магниты для преуспевающих участников экономики... more
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      Innovation statisticsRegional policyGlobal citiesUrban Planning
En este artículo se busca desvelar la estrategia espacial del proceso de urbanización del capitalismo global, extendido a través de la construcción de una marca cultural que ha llevado a Cuenca (Ecuador) a especializarse en el consumo... more
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      Cultural StudiesTourism StudiesCultural HeritageUrbanization in Developing Areas
The UK Government wants to make it easier to convert offices to residential use without full planning permission to help solve London's housing shortage. But it runs the risk of simply turning valuable commercial space into more empty... more
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      Real EstateGlobal citiesUrban PlanningHousing
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      Suburban StudiesGlobal citiesGentrificationUrban Studies
La France dispose d’un atout avec la mégapole parisienne. Mais le futur de Paris est-il plein d’avenir ? Pour répondre à cette question, il convient d’analyser les atouts et les handicaps de la ville-lumière. [France has an advantage... more
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      GeographyUrban GeographyGlobal citiesRegional and Local Governance
Defining the role of cities within economic networks has been a key theoretical challenge, particularly as nuanced understandings of positionality are increasingly championed over hierarchical notions of influence or power in the World... more
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      Urban GeographyEconomic GeographyGlobalizationGlobal cities
A historical analysis of the geopolitics of real estate with settler-colonialism on the one side and the rise of über-wealthy foreign real estate investors on the other. Individual foreign investment in Western nation states is a... more
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      Urban GeographyGlobalizationChinese StudiesHousing & Residential Design
"[...] the discourses surrounding the architecture of global cities [are] often as spectacular as the architecture itself, resounding with terms like the 'Bilbao effect', the 'icon' and the 'starchitect'. Architectural works and... more
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      ArchitecturePlace promotion and marketingGlobal citiesSingapore
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      Global citiesGlobal Commodity Chains
The paper focuses on transnational wealth elites buying residential properties in New York and London as an investment rather than as a primary residence. The transnational wealth elite is a group of people that have their origin in one... more
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      Real EstateTransnationalismGlobal citiesForeign Direct Investment
Review article that focuses on twenty years of publications on the city of Bangalore with special attention to: - Askew—A Short Biography of Bangalore by TJS George - Reengineering India—Work, Capital, and Class in an Offshore Economy by... more
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      HistoryUrban GeographyAnthropologySocial Sciences
Edited and introduced by Lissa McCullough. This volume in Princeton Architectural Press's popular Conversations series offers timely thinking in response to our global environmental crisis. Drawn from the visionary architect's personal... more
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The 18th International Planning History Society Conference l Panel. 37 The Global History of Urban Renewal (Sponsored by the Global Urban History Project)
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      Cultural HeritageGlobal citiesAuthenticityUrban Regeneration
The intuitive connections between global cities of finance and global cities of art have been repeatedly asserted. However, systematic analyses of how both geographies conjoin in major cities remain thin on the ground. The purpose of this... more
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In 2007 the French government announced the “Grand Paris” initiative. This ambitious project reimagined the Paris region as integrated, balanced, global, sustainable, and prosperous. Metropolitan solidarity would unite divided... more
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      Urban GeographyArchitectureMobility/MobilitiesUrban Politics
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      Intellectual HistoryBritish HistoryHistory of ScienceGlobal cities
Delhi’s one-third population lives in sub-standard housing, which includes slums and JJ (jhuggi jhopdi) clusters. The government agencies have taken up slum resettlement measures in order to address the issue but people in the... more
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      Global citiesCitizenship
Back cover text: Real Social Science presents a new, hands-on approach to social inquiry. The theoretical and methodological ideas behind the book, inspired by Aristotelian phronesis, represent an original perspective within the social... more
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"Global city-thinking has, in the past years, had a very real pull on society. Global cities seem an unavoidable fact of everyday world affairs. This volume gathers a forum that integrates the extensive set of disciplinary dimensions... more
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Chapter 8 from The City of Reason vol 5 The Economic Concept of the City by Dr Peter Critchley This paper analyses the emergence of the Informational City as the Dual City entrenched in social polarisation. This development has a... more
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      PovertyGlobal citiesGentrificationGated Communities
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      Asian StudiesUrban HistoryGlobal citiesFood History
Considering ‘Cities Beyond the Plan’ helps us substantiate territory beyond being just a passive setting contingent to meta-forces. To do so, requires us look at logics and conceptual frame drawing from legal pluralism, that of space and... more
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