Global Urban Analysis: A Survey of Cities in Globalization

by Pengfei Ni, Peter J. Taylor, Ben Derudder

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138975249
• ISBN13: 9781138975248
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"