Title Global metropolitan : globalizing cities in a capitalist world / John Rennie Short.

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Description	1 online resource (viii, 146 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	Questioning cities
	Questioning cities series.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (131-139) and index.
Contents	Globalization and the city -- From world city to globalizing cities -- Globalizing cities -- Black holes and loose connections -- Tensions in the global city -- The modalities of the global city -- Going for gold: globalizing the Olympics, localizing the games -- The super-rich and the global city -- The global, the city, and the body.
Summary	The force of globalization is making cities change all around the world. Short's study explores how the discourse of globalization has become a major narrative in the restructuring of cities in many parts of the world.
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Subject	Metropolitan areas.
	Metropolitan areas.
	Urbanization.
	Urbanization.
	Globalization.
	Globalization.
	Cosmopolitanism.
	Cosmopolitanism.
	City dwellers -- Social conditions.
	City dwellers -- Social conditions.
	City dwellers.
	City dwellers -- Economic conditions.
	City dwellers -- Economic conditions.
	City and town life.
	City and town life.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Short, John R. Global metropolitan. London ; New York : Routledge, 2004 0415305411 (DLC) 2003024744 (OCoLC)53469487
ISBN	9781134405206 (electronic book)
	1134405200 (electronic book)
	0415305411
	9780415305419
	041530542X
	9780415305426