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010 _a 2016938535
020 _a9781446267066 (hardcover)
020 _a1446267067 (hardcover)
020 _a9781446267073 (paperback)
020 _a1446267075 (paperback)
035 _a(OCoLC)ocn969680882
040 _aSITPL
_beng
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050 0 0 _aHT151
_b.M389 2017
082 0 0 _a307.76
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100 1 _aMcNeill, Donald,
_d1969-
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aGlobal cities and urban theory /
_cDonald McNeill.
260 _aLondon, UK :
_bSage Publications;
_c2017.
300 _ax, 182 pages :
_billustrations ;
_c25 cm
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 157-177) and index.
505 0 0 _aMachine generated contents note:
_tBright lights, global cities --
_tCultural and political economies --
_tMaterial turns --
_tThe organization of the book --
_g1.
_tCentrality --
_tCaput Mundi: capital of the world --
_tThe `original globalizer'? Cities and territorialized religion --
_tThe cathedral and the global city --
_tTheological centrality --
_tPopemobile: universality and visibility --
_tCreative globalization? Pilgrimage practices --
_tThe Bible and the global South --
_g2.
_tFlat Cities --
_tActor-networks and political economies --
_tA Paris journey; or, the problem of the `zoom' --
_tHow big is the city? --
_tWorld's Fairs --
_tCentre of calculation --
_tThe objects that hold Paris together --
_tSmall Paris: recomposition --
_tA rumour of cities --
_g3.
_tGlobal Urban Order(Ing) --
_tMetageographies --
_tGlobal rankings --
_tThe `ordinary city' debates --
_tOntologies of big cities --
_tStandard cities --
_tGlobal standards I: hotels --
_tGlobal standards II: air conditioning --
_g4.
_tLogistical Territories --
_tCircumferential and surface geographies --
_tLogistical territories --
_tPort ontologies --
_tA ship-centric ontology of the urban? --
_tAirport territories --
_tThe production of Hong Kong International Airport --
_g5.
_tCentres of Calculation --
_tCBD: the central business district as a `centre of calculation' --
_tOffice geographies --
_tBodies and work --
_tSaskia Sassen's financial centres --
_tMetrologies of centrality: critical accounting --
_tCalculable city space --
_tGlobal cities and the `super-rich' --
_tMoral geographies --
_tForensic urban geography --
_g6.
_tWorld-Making --
_tModels, experts and consultants --
_tActualization --
_tThe selling of the Silicon Valley model --
_tManagement consultancy as worlding practice --
_tCo-presence and business travel --
_tGurus and urbanologists --
_tSan Francisco and the global expansion of Uber --
_tTestbeds and experimentation --
_tUrban laboratories: New Songdo and Masdar City --
_tCONCLUSIONS --
_tDistance and panorama --
_tGlobal cities are miscellaneous concentrations of firms --
_tCalculated territories --
_tPower and cities --
_tEthnographic sensitivities.
650 0 _aCities and towns.
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650 0 _aGlobalization
_xPolitical aspects.
650 0 _aGlobalization
_xEconomic aspects.
650 0 _aUrbanization
_xPolitical aspects.
650 0 _aUrbanization
_xEconomic aspects.
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650 7 _aGlobalization
_xEconomic aspects.
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650 7 _aGlobalization
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650 7 _aUrbanization
_xEconomic aspects.
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