CONTENTS Series Forward xi Preface xii List of Contributors xvii Introduction: Cities and Regions Evolving in an Ever-Changing World 1 A.J. Jacobs PART ONE: CITY-REGIONS IN A WORLD SYSTEM City-Regions in a World System: An Overview- A.J. Jacobs 7 1. Where We Stand: A Decade of World City Research (1995)-John Friedmann 14 A decade after his seminal World City Hypothesis article, Friedmann summarizes and assesses the contributions of World/Global City Theory to the urban scholarship. 2. Cities in a World Economy (2006)-Saskia Sassen 24 A foundation chapter in her seminal book, Sassen describes how the 1980s explosion in world financial activity prompted a concurrent rise in global cities as gateways for international capital. 3. Hierarchical Tendencies and Regional Patterns in the World City Network .. (2003)-Ben Derudder, Peter J. Taylor, Frank Witlox, and Gilda Catalano 35 Focusing upon 22 clusters ranging across 234 cities, Derudder et al. offer a multi-layered classification system which would later become Peter Taylor's seminal World City Network. 4. Mexico City: The Making of a Global City? (2002)- Christof Parnreiter 50 Parnreiter chronicles how global flows and NAFTA pushed the Mexican Government to aggressively promote foreign trade and foreign direct investment (FDI), and transformed Mexico City into a Global City. 5. Location Theory in Reverse? Location for Global Production in the IT Industry of Bangalore (2008)- Rolee Aranya 62 Aranya, a GaWC collaborator, shows how the IT sector's limited need for face-to-face interactions and focus on offshore activities have resulted in a reverse spatial logic in Bangalore: the peripherali-zation of control and centralization of routine production functions. 6. Building Shanghai: Historical Lessons from China's Gateway (2008)- Edward Denison 77 Denison reviews the history of architectural styles in Shanghai and in the process shows how contemporary capitalist forces have reshaped the city from an aging and low-rise city into a thriving high-rise conglomeration. 7. Race, Space and the Post-Fordist Spatial Order of Johannesburg (2008)- Owen Crankshaw 86 Crankshaw contends that the evidence showing post-apartheid suburban Johannesburg has developed in a much more mixed-race, desegregated pattern than its more established neighborhoods suggests that the city is a potential exception among world cities. 8. Global Dubai or Dubaization (2010)-Yasser Elsheshtawy 100 Weary of its potential pitfalls, Elsheshtawy cautions other cities interested in replicating Dubaization, claiming that in Dubai such an over-focus on globalization has led to an intensification in economic, social and, political inequality. PART TWO: NESTED CITY-REGIONS Nested City-Regions: An Overview-A.]. Jacobs 113 9. The Nested City (2003)-Richard Child Hill and Kuniko Fujita 119 In this seminal article, Hill and Fujita reject the disembedding and convergences claims of World City scholars and outline the basic conceptual position of Nested City Theory, particularly that cities continue to evolve within their own unique national and sub-national context. 10. New York, Chicago, Los Angeles: America's Global Cities (1999) - Janet L. Abu-Lughod 129 From the concluding chapter in her seminal book, Abu-Lughod demonstrates the importance of comparative urban research, and how variations in history, geography, politics, and inter-group relations have fostered differential outcomes in New York, Chicago, and L.A. 11. Race, Fragmentation, and Divergent Outcomes in Detroit and Toronto (2013) - A.]. Jacobs 147 In his comparison of two areas within the same natural region and closely linked by production flows, Jacobs reveals how variations in racial-ethnic relations, municipal fragmentation, and multi-jurisdictional planning have foster divergent growth patterns. 12. Planning Taipei (2006)-Chia-Huang Wang 165 Utilizing what he calls a 'bottom-up approach' Wang explores how Taipei's urban primacy in Taiwan has enabled, constrained, and conditioned the city's strategic planning actions and responses to global forces. 13. Expanding Income Stratification in the Tokyo Region (2013)-A.]. Jacobs 177 Jacobs describes how Tokyo's changing development context has led to a rise in inter-place income stratification in the region since 1980. He then shows how Tokyo's nested context has insured that inequality has remained much less severe than in America's three largest regions. 14. Experiencing Jakarta (2008)-Christopher Silver 194 After a brief historical review of Jakarta, Silver chronicles how the policies of the national government, under President Suharto, transformed region into a global city. He concludes by offering a planning vision for the Jakarta's future in the 21st century. 15. Actor Networks and Hybrid Developmental States: Malaysia's Multimedia Super-corridor and New York's Silicon Alley (2003)-Michael Indergaard 206 Guided by Actor-Network Theory, Indergaard compares Malaysia's Multimedia Super-corridor (MSC) with New York's Silicon Alley. He concludes that the MSC's development approach presents a hybrid model, melding developmentalism and neo-liberalism. 16. Ulsan: South Korea's Great Industrial City (2013) - A.]. Jacobs 222 In an effort to reassert the importance of industrial centers, Jacobs chronicles how global, national, and local forces have transformed Ulsan into a 'Great Industrial City', a major international locus of motor vehicle, ship, and petrochemicals manufacturing. PART THREE: THE CITY-REGION AS THE ENGINE OF ECONOMIC ACTIVITY/GROWTH: AN OVERVIEW The City-Region as the Engine of Economic Activity and Growth: An Overview (2003)-A.]. Jacobs 239 17. Regions, Globalization, Development (2003)- Alien J. Scott and Michael Storper 244 In their seminal article on agglomeration theory, Scott and Storper argue that contrary to contemporary theories of development and trade, advancing globalization has not made regional economies irrelevant, but rather more indispensable to national growth. 18. The Bratislava-Zilina Auto Corridor: Capitalist Agglomeration in the Post-Socialist CEE (2013) -A.]. Jacobs 253 Offering it as a microcosm of Central and Eastern European regions, Jacobs describes how FDI has transformed Bratislava from Socialist controlled into an important tri-national, foreign- led motor vehicle production zone, and the catalyst behind Slovakia's ascension into the EU. 19. The Development Industry and Urban Redevelopment in New York and London (2001)-Susan Fainstein 268 Fainstein argues that the deregulation of the financial industry in the 1980s and a related dramatic rise in capital flows induced a speculative fury and an ensuing extraordinary boom and bust cycle in the property markets in New York and London. 20. Hong Kong: An Entrepreneurial City in Action (2000)-Bob Jessop and Ngai-Ling Sum 285 Drawing upon Schumpeter, Harvey, and others, Jessop and Sum show how Hong Kong's long history of urban entrepreneurship, make it a prime case study of an 'Entrepreneurial City' which has acted strategically in order to facilitate local economic growth. 21. Innovation in Europe: A Tale of Networks, Knowledge and Trade in Five European Cities (2002)-James Simmie, James Sennett, Peter Wood, and Doug Hart 297 In one of his many articles on the topic, and utilizing Amsterdam, London, Milan, Paris, and Stuttgart as case studies, Simmie and his colleagues explore how clusters of innovative firms have sparked economic growth in a handful of European city-regions. 22. From World Cities to Gateway Cities: Extending the Boundaries of Globalization Theory (2000)-John Rennie Short, Carrie Breitbach, Steven Buckman and Jamey Essex 308 Building upon his past research on urban boosterism, Short and his collaborators offer seven case-study cities worldwide in their attempt to expand the contemporary narrow understanding of the globalization/city relationship by introducing the concept of 'Gateway City'. 23. From Modernist to Market Urbanism: The Transformation of New Belgrade (2011)-Paul Waley 318 Through his case study of Belgrade, Waley reveals the challenges confronting many Central, Eastern, and Southeastern European city leaders in their efforts to reconcile and accommodate socialist urban form with neo-liberal development forces. 24. Collaborative Regionalism and FDI Growth: The Cases of Mississippi's PUL Alliance and Alabama-Georgia's Auto Valley Partnership (2013)-A.]. Jacobs 331 Through his case studies of two small American auto producing regions, Jacobs shows how economic decline has provoked adjacent local governments to collaborate in order to compete for FDI and job growth. CONCLUSIONS AND LESSONS The Nexus City Model: Bridging the Local, Regional, National, and International Contexts (2013)-A.]. Jacobs 351 Integrating many of the ideas presented in the book's readings, Jacobs offers a 12-factor, conceptual toolkit or model for use by students and scholars in their own examinations and comparisons of the world's city-regions. Rights and Permission List 364 References Cited in the Readings 367 Index 390