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A Study of the Cultural Development Path and Strategy of Chengdu as a Global City
Contemporary Social Sciences, 2021 Chengdu should promote its cultural development as a global city, for this move can help raise its international profile, strengthen its urban culture as soft power, give consideration to both the “hard environment” and “soft services” in building its
Zhang Li
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Shanghai’s Regenerated Industrial Waterfronts: Urban Lab for Sustainability Transitions?
Urban Planning, 2021 In China, Shanghai often serves as a place to introduce and try out new ideas. This is certainly the case with experimental urban planning and design solutions and sustainability transitions.
Harry den Hartog
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Social Inclusion, 2023 This article highlights the lived experience of migrants who have come to London to set up a new life and are learning English to facilitate this process.
Silke Zschomler
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Deindustrialization in cities of the Global South [PDF]
Area Development and Policy, 2020 Recent research by economists has shown that deindustrialization is more severe in Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America than it ever was in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Nevertheless, most research on deindustrialization is focused on the former centres of Fordist manufacturing in the industrial heartlands of the ...
Seth Schindler +6 more
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Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research, 2011 The state-sanctioned Shanghai International Film Festival (SIFF) is the only film festival accredited by the Fédération Internationale des Associations de Producteurs de Films (FIAPF) in the Greater China region.
Ma Ran
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Theoretical Aspects of the International Activity of Megacities in the Transnational Urban Network
Регионология, 2022 Introduction. The international activities of megacities in current circumstances are undergoing significant transformations, and new phenomena are emerging that require updating research approaches, clarifying and supplementing the terminology database.
Maxim I. Kolykhalov
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Global and non-global city locations: the effect of clusters on the performance of foreign firms
Regional Studies, Regional Science, 2021 This study examines the effects of subnational regional heterogeneity on the performance of foreign firms. Based on the global city concept, it identified regions with and without global connectivity and then compared the effects of within-country ...
Sharif Rasel, Paul Kalfadellis
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Cities for global health [PDF]
BMJ, 2018 In the first of a new series of articles on the role of cities in health, Majid Ezzati and colleagues call for greater action to reduce health inequalities within ...
Ezzati, M +5 more
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The city: today’s frontier zone
Glocalism: Journal of Culture, Politics and Innovation, 2014 Cities are complex systems, but they are incomplete systems. All cities are becoming the same, but all cities are competing with each other. Here actors from different worlds meet, but there are no clear rules of engagement.
Saskia Sassen
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Confins, 2009 The globalization of the economy of the last three decades understood as a new phase of the capitalist system has seriously reshaped the geography of the economic production at the world scale.
Cynthia Ghorra-Gobin
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