TY - BOOK AU - Short,John R. TI - Global metropolitan: globalizing cities in a capitalist world T2 - Questioning cities SN - 9781134405206 AV - HT330 .S564 2004eb U1 - 307.76 22 PY - 2004/// CY - London, New York PB - Routledge KW - Metropolitan areas KW - Urbanization KW - Globalization KW - Cosmopolitanism KW - City dwellers KW - Social conditions KW - Economic conditions KW - City and town life KW - Urbanisation KW - Mondialisation KW - Cosmopolitisme KW - Citadins KW - Conditions sociales KW - Conditions économiques KW - Vie urbaine KW - urbanization KW - aat KW - globalism KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE KW - Sociology KW - Urban KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Stadtentwicklung KW - gnd KW - Globalisierung KW - Soziale Situation KW - Wirtschaftliche Lage KW - Internationalisatie KW - gtt KW - Stedelijke ontwikkeling KW - Metropolen KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references ([131]-139) and index; 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 N2 - 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 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=525856 ER -