List of PlatesLists of figuresList of tablesList of contributors Editor’s Introduction to Second EditionAcknowledgementsPART 1 FOUNDATIONSIntroduction to Part One1.0 PrologueThe Metropolitan Explosion Peter Hall1.1 Divisions of Space and Time in Europe Fernand Braudel1.2 World City Formation: An Agenda for Research and ActionJohn Friedmann and Goetz Wolff1.3 Locating Cities on Global Circuits Saskia Sassen1.4 Urban Specialization in the World SystemNestor Rodriguez and Joe Feagin1.5 Accumulation and Comparative Urban SystemsJohn Walton1.6 The World-System Perspective and UrbanizationMichael Timberlake1.7 Global City Formation in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles: An Historical PerspectiveJanet Abu-Lughod1.8 Global and World Cities: A View from Off the MapJennifer Robinson1.9 Space in the Globalizing CityPeter MarcusePART 2 PATHWAYSIntroduction to Part Two2.0 PrologueIstanbul was our past, Istanbul is our futureHamid Dabashi2.1 The City as a Landscape of Power: London and New York as Global Financial CapitalsSharon Zukin2.2 Detroit and Houston: Two Cities in Global PerspectiveRichard C. Hill and Joe Feagin2.3 The Stimulus of a Little Confusion: A Contemporary Comparison of Amsterdam and Los AngelesEdward Soja 2.4 Global City Zurich: Paradigms of Urban DevelopmentChristian Schmid2.5 From ‘State-Owned’ to ‘City Inc.’: The Re-territorialization of the State in ShanghaiFulong Wu 2.6 The Dream of Delhi as a Global CityVeronica Dupont 2.7 ‘Fourth World’ Cities in the Global Economy: The Case of Phnom PenhGavin Shatkin 2.8 Medellín and Bogotá: The Global Cities of the Other GlobalizationEduardo MendietaPART 3 RELATIONSIntroduction to Part Three3.0 PrologueSpecification of the World City NetworkPeter Taylor3.1 Local and Global: Cities in Network SocietyManuel Castells3.2 Comparing London and Frankfurt as World Cities: A Relational Study of Contemporary Urban ChangeJonathan V. Beaverstock, Michael Hoyler, Kathryn Pain, and Peter J. Taylor3.3 Global Grids of Glass: On Global Cities, Telecommunication and Planetary Urban NetworksStephen Graham3.4 Global Cities and the Spread of Infectious Disease: The Case of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in Toronto, CanadaS. Harris Ali and Roger Keil3.5 Flying High (in the Competitive Sky): Conceptualizing the Role of Airports in Global City-Regions through ‘Aero-Regionalism’Jean-Paul Addie3.6 One Package at a Time: The Distributive World CityCynthia Negrey, Jeffery L. Osgood, and Frank Goetzke3.7 Global Cities between Biopolitics and Necropolitics: (In)Security and Circuits of Knowledge in the Global City NetworkDavid Murakami-Wood3.8 The Virtual Palimpsest of the Global City NetworkMark Graham3.9 Relationality/territoriality: Toward conceptualization of cities in the worldEugene McCann and Kevin Ward PART 4 REGULATIONSIntroduction to Part Four4.0 PrologueThe Global City as World OrderWarren Magnusson4.1 Globalization and the Rise of City-regionsAllen J. Scott4.2 Global Cities, ‘Global States’: Global City Formation and State Territorial Restructuring in Contemporary EuropeNeil Brenner 4.3 Global Cities and Developmental States: Tokyo and SeoulRichard Child Hill and June Woo Kim4.4 World City Formation on the Asia Pacific Rim: Poverty, "Everyday" Forms of Civil Society and Environmental ManagementMike Douglass4.5 New Globalism, New Urbanism: Gentrification as Global Urban StrategyNeil Smith4.6 Between World History and State Formation: New Perspectives on Africa’s CitiesLaurent Fourchard 4.7 The ‘Right to the City’: Institutional Imperatives of a Developmental StateSusan Parnell and Edgar Pieterse4.8 Global Cities’ vs. ‘global cities:’ Rethinking Contemporary Urbanism as Public EcologyTimothy W. LukePART 5 CONTESTATIONSIntroduction to Part Five5.0 PrologueFrom Tahrir Square to Emaar Square: Cairo's private road to a private cityMohamed Elshahed5.1 Local Actors in Global PoliticsSaskia Sassen5.2 The Right to the CityDavid Harvey5.3 Urban Social Movements in an Era of GlobalizationMargit Mayer5.4 São Paulo: The City and its ProtestTeresa Caldeira5.5 Global City Building in China and its DiscontentsXuefei Ren 5.6 Between Ghetto and Globe: Remaking Urban Life in AfricaAbdouMaliq Simone5.7 World Cities and Union RenewalSteven Tufts 5.8 Blockupy Fights Back: Global City Formation in Frankfurt am Main after the Financial CrisisSebastian Schipper, Lucas Pohl, Tino Petzold, Daniel Mullis, and Bernd BelinaPART 6 CULTUREIntroduction to Part Six6.0 Prologue: High Culture and Hard LaborAndrew Ross6.1 World Cities: Global? Postcolonial? Postimperial? Or Just the Result of Happenstance? Some Cultural CommentsAnthony King6.2 "Global Media Cities": Major Nodes of Globalising Culture and Media IndustriesStefan Kratke 6.3 Willing the Global City: Berlin’s Cultural Strategies of Inter-Urban Competition after 1989Ute Lehrer6.4 The Transnational Capitalist Class and Contemporary Architecture in Globalizing CitiesLeslie Sklair 6.5 Shanghai Nightscapes and Ethnosexual Contact ZonesJames Farrer and Andrew Field6.6 Graffiti or Street Art? Negotiating the Moral Geographies of the Creative CityCameron McAuliffe 6.7 Spaces and Networks of Musical Creativity in the city Allan Watson, Michael Hoyler and Christoph Mager6.8 Provincializing the Global City: From Bombay to MumbaiRashimi VarmaPART 7 FRONTIERSIntroduction to Part Seven7.0 PrologueWorld CityDoreen Massey7.1 The Global Cities Discourse: A Return to the Master Narrative?Michael Peter Smith7.2 External Urban Relational Processes: Introducing Central Flow Theory to Complement Central Place TheoryPeter J. Taylor, Michael Hoyler and Raf Verbruggen7.3 Beyond the Global City Concept and the Myth of ‘Command and Control’Richard G. Smith7.4 World Cities under Conditions of Financialized Globalization: Towards an Augmented World City HypothesisDavid Bassens and Michiel van Meeteren7.5 Can the Straw Man Speak? An Engagement with Postcolonial Critiques of ‘Global Cities Research’Michiel van Meeteren, Ben Derudder, and David Bassens7.6 Global SuburbanizationRoger Keil7.7 What is Urban about Critical Urban Theory?Ananya Roy7.8 Planetary UrbanizationNeil Brenner and Christian Schmid7.9 New Geographies of Theorizing the Urban: Putting Comparison to Work for Global Urban StudiesJennifer Robinson7.10 Governing the Informal in Globalizing Cities: Comparing China, India, and BrazilXuefei Ren7.11 The Urban RevolutionHenri LefebvreIndex