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The potential of rooftop PV for prosumer energy provision globally

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Zhang Z   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Global city Sydney

open access: yesProgress in Planning, 2020
© 2018 Elsevier Ltd Sydney has emerged as a major global city in the 21st century. We review the “global city thesis”, which dominates urban scholarship and practice, and ask whether it adequately captures the Sydney experience.
Ronald K Vogel   +2 more
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Global Cities in the Global Corporate Network [PDF]

open access: possibleEnvironment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 2007
Since the 1980s two separate literatures—one focused on global cities, the other on transnational corporate interlocking—have explored issues of hierarchy and networking within the global political economy. I present an analysis of how major cities and interlocking corporate directorates are articulated together into a global network. Findings indicate
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Global/globalizing cities

Progress in Human Geography, 1999
Along with the rise in research on globalization the concept of globalization has become a subject to a more critical scrutiny. While majority agree that it represents a serious challenge to the state-centrist assumptions of most previous social science doubts about its newness inevitability and epoch-making qualities are also being raised.
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Balancing global city with global village

Habitat International, 1998
The discourse on habitat and human settlements is increasingly dominated by that of the global, mega-city. If the aim of those of us in the human settlements field are to improve our understanding of and action on habitat and human settlements, this, often exclusive, focus is a mistake.
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Global City Review: Hong Kong as a Global City

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2008
The study of world city has been well-established since 1995. In 1915 Patrick Geddes has first used the term world city to describe great cities in which a quite disproportionate part of the world's most important business is conducted (Hall, 1966). Friedmann, Sassen and others found that the world-wide networks of production, finance, trade, power and
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