Global City-Regions: Trends, Theory, Policy

The processes of global economic integration and accelerated urban growth make traditional planning and policy strategies in these regions increasingly inadequate, while more effective approaches remain largely in various stages of hypothesis and experimentation. These city-regions are expanding vigorously, and they present many new and deep challenges to researchers and policy-makers in both the more developed and less developed parts of the world. There are now more than three hundred city-regions around the world with populations greater than one million.

PART VIII: THE NEW COLLECTIVE ORDER OF GLOBAL CITY-REGIONS.PART VI: SOCIAL INEQUALITIES AND IMMIGRANT NICHES IN GLOBAL CITY-REGIONS.

PART V: GLOBAL CITY-REGIONS IN AFRICA, ASIA, AND LATIN AMERICA: POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC CHALLENGES.PART IV: THE COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGES OF GLOBAL CITY-REGIONS.PART III: THE GLOBAL CITY-REGION: A NEW GEOGRAPHIC PHENOMENON?.PART II: ON PRACTICAL QUESTIONS OF GLOBALIZATION AND CITY-REGION DEVELOPMENT.Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.

Global City-Regions: Trends, Theory, Policy