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Testing a global city hypothesis : an assessment of polarization across US cities [PDF]
, 2012 Social polarization is perhaps most evident within the world's large cities where we can easily observe stark contrasts between wealth and poverty. A world city theoretical perspective has emerged that associates large cities importance in a global ...
Derudder, Ben +5 more
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Cities and global governance: State failure or a new global order? [PDF]
, 2016 International society, so long the resolution to problems of collective political order, now appears to be failing in its capacity to deal with transnational challenges such as climate change, global security and financial instability.
Curtis, Simon
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World cities and global commodity chains: an introduction [PDF]
, 2010 The purpose of this special anniversary issue is to assess the possible cross-fertilization between two prominent analytical frameworks: the World City Network framework, in which researchers have studied the emergence of a globalized urban system for ...
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Bulletin of Geography. Socio-Economic Series, 2023 Global Cities (GCs) and Multinational Enterprises (MNEs) belong to a group of entities that shape the modern world economy in the most distinct way. So far, both of them have been given a lot of attention in the literature, but few studies have been ...
Maria Kola-Bezka, Marcin Kuzel
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Milan in the age of global contract.
Glocalism: Journal of Culture, Politics and Innovation, 2014 Milan is not only the golden location of the fashion and design industries as well as hightech research centres. What is peculiar about Milan, compared to London or Paris, is the contradiction between high density growth (made in the past by industry and
Paolo Perulli
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A global fingerprint of macro-scale changes in urban structure from 1999 to 2009 [PDF]
, 2013 Urban population now exceeds rural population globally, and 60–80% of global energy consumption by households, businesses, transportation, and industry occurs in urban areas.
Friedl, Mark A +3 more
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Analysis and Ranking of Tehran Metropolitan Sustainability Among Global Cities [PDF]
جغرافیا و توسعه, 2017 In the era of globalization of economy, metropolises play an important role in countries development, especially in developing countries.Today, metropolises by entering into the global cities network have access to the world-wide capital markets ...
Hooshang Sarvar
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BMC Health Services Research, 2018 Background Melbourne, Australia is experiencing rapid population growth, with much of this occurring in metropolitan outer suburban areas, also known as urban growth areas.
Rebecca Madill +3 more
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Istanbul: A Global, but Still Industrial, City
Journal of Economy Culture and Society, 2022 Global cities are typically perceived as the outcomes of a series of structural transformations experienced by the advanced capitalist countries in North America and Western Europe in the 1970s.
Özgür Sayın
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Mapping Europe into local climate zones [PDF]
, 2019 Cities are major drivers of environmental change at all scales and are especially at risk from the ensuing effects, which include poor air quality, flooding and heat waves.
Bechtel, Benjamin +3 more
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