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Cities in a World Economy

The Third Editionof Cities in a World Economyshows how certain characteristics of our turn-of-the-millennium flows of money, information, and people have led to the emergence of a new social formation: global cities. These developments give new meaning to such fixtures of urban sociology as the centrality of place and the importance of geography in our social world.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 269 pages

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