Global Cities and Global Order

by Simon Curtis

The re-emergence of the city from the long shadow of the state in the late-twentieth century was facilitated by the state itself. The unprecedented size and scale of today's global cities and mega cities owe their conditions of possibility to a fundamental shift in the character of political order at the level of the international system. This book argues that we must understand the rise of the global city as part of a wider process of the transformation...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198744013
• ISBN13: 9780198744016
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"