Table of Contents

Cities and Regions Evolving in an Ever-Changing World; 1: City-Regions in a World System: An Overview; 1: Where We Stand: A Decade of World City Research (1995); 2: Cities in a World Economy (2006); 3: Hierarchical Tendencies and Regional Patterns in the World City Network … (2003); 4: Mexico City: The Making of a Global City? (2002); 5: Location Theory in Reverse? Location for Global Production in the IT Industry of Bangalore (2008); 6: Building Shanghai: Historical Lessons from China's Gateway (2008); 7: Race, Space and the Post-Fordist Spatial Order of Johannesburg (2008); 8: Global Dubai or Dubaization (2010); 2: Nested City-Regions; 9: The Nested City (2003); 10: New York, Chicago, Los Angeles: America's Global Cities (1999); 11: Race, Fragmentation, and Divergent Outcomes in Detroit and Toronto (2013); 12: Planning Taipei (2006); 13: Expanding Income Stratification in the Tokyo Region (2013); 14: Experiencing Jakarta (2008); 15: Actor Networks and Hybrid Developmental States: Malaysia's Multimedia Super-corridor and New York's Silicon Alley (2003); 16: Ulsan: South Korea's Great Industrial City (2013); 3: The City-Region as the Engine of Economic Activity/Growth: An Overview; 17: Regions, Globalization, Development (2003); 18: The Bratislava-Žilina Auto Corridor: Capitalist Agglomeration in the Post-Socialist CEE (2013); 19: The Development Industry and Urban Redevelopment in New York and London (2001); 20: Hong Kong: An Entrepreneurial City in Action (2000); 21: Innovation in Europe: A Tale of Networks, Knowledge and Trade in Five European Cities (2002); 22: From World Cities to Gateway Cities: Extending the Boundaries of Globalization Theory (2000); 23: From Modernist to Market Urbanism: The Transformation of New Belgrade (2011); 24: Collaborative Regionalism and FDI Growth: The Cases of Mississippi's PUL Alliance and Alabama–Georgia's Auto Valley Partnership (2013); Conclusions and Lessons; The Nexus City Model: Bridging the Local, Regional, National, and International Contexts