Contributors vii Acknowledgements ix Introduction: World cities and urban form 3 Mike Jenks, Daniel Kozak and Pattaranan Takkanon Section One Theoretical Approaches in a Global Context 1.What is a 'World Class' City? Comparing conceptual 11 specifications of cities in the context of a global urban network Ben Derudder and Frank Witlox 2.Globalisation and the Forms of Cities 25 Peter Marcuse 3.The World City Hypothesis Revisited: Export and import of 41 urbanity is a dangerous business Darko Radovic 4. Sustainability and the 'World Class' City: What is being 57 sustained and for whom? Judy Rogers 5.Polycentrism and 'Defragmentation': Towards a more sustainable 71 urban form? Mike Jenks and Daniel Kozak Section Two Polycentric Regions and Cities: Perspectives from Europe, Asia and North America 6. Promoting Sustainable Urban Form: Implementing urban 95 consolidation policies around the Helsinki Metropolitan Region Olli Maijala and Rauno Sairinen 7.Spatial Disparities Based on Human and Social Capital 113 Oto Hudec and Natasa Urbancikovd 8.The Barcelona Model: 1979-2004 and beyond 129 Jaume Came and Aleksandar Ivancic 9.Sustainable 'World Class' Cities and Glocal Sprawl in Southeast 145 Asian Metropolitans Sidh Sintusingha 10. Quality of Life and Spatial Urban Forms of Mega City Regions 161 in Japan Kiyonobu Kaido and Jeahyun Kwon 11. Global Integration, Growth Patterns and Sustainable 175 Development: A case study of the peri-urban area of Shanghai Jiaping Wu 12. Taichung the Waiting Metropolis and its Campaign Towards 191 a 'World Class' City: A case of glocollision, glocoalition or glocalisation? Shih-wei Lo 13. 'World Class' Vancouver: A terminal city re-imagined 203 May So 14. Planning a 'World Class' City without Zoning: The experience 219 of Houston Zhu Qian Section Three Aspects of Fragmentation and Polycentrism 15. Assessing Urban Fragmentation: The emergence of new 239 typologies in central Buenos Aires Daniel Kozak 16.Tracking Sustainable Urban Forms and Material Flows 259 in Singapore Perry Pei-Ju Yang 17. The Right to the City: Stakeholder perspectives of Greater Cairo 269 Metropolitan communities Wael Salah Fahmi 18. 'World Class'Living? 293 Nuttinee Karnchanaporn and Apiradee Kasemsook 19. Staunchly Middle-class Travel Behaviour: Bangkok's struggle to 303 achieve a successful transport system Wapen Charoentrakulpeeti and Willi Zimmermann 20. To Be or Not To Be a 'World Class' City: Poverty and urban 321 form in Paris and Bucharest Qana Liliana Pavel 21.The Inner Truth of Slums in Mega Cities: A scenario 333 from India Vijay Neekhra, Takashi Onishi and Tetsuo Kidokoro Conclusion: The Form of Cities to Come? 353 Mike Jenks, Daniel Kozak and Pattaranan Takkanon Index ' 361