TY  - BOOK
AU  - McNeill,Donald
TI  - Global cities and urban theory
SN  - 9781446267073 (paperback)
AV  - HT151 .M36 2017
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Los Angeles
PB  - SAGE
KW  - Cities and towns
KW  - Globalization
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Economic aspects
KW  - Urbanization
KW  - fast
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-177) and index; Machine generated contents note; Bright lights, global cities --; Cultural and political economies --; Material turns --; The organization of the book --; 1; Centrality --; Caput Mundi: capital of the world --; The `original globalizer'? Cities and territorialized religion --; The cathedral and the global city --; Theological centrality --; Popemobile: universality and visibility --; Creative globalization? Pilgrimage practices --; The Bible and the global South --; 2; Flat Cities --; Actor-networks and political economies --; A Paris journey; or, the problem of the `zoom' --; How big is the city? --; World's Fairs --; Centre of calculation --; The objects that hold Paris together --; Small Paris: recomposition --; A rumour of cities --; 3; Global Urban Order(Ing) --; Metageographies --; Global rankings --; The `ordinary city' debates --; Ontologies of big cities --; Standard cities --; Global standards I: hotels --; Global standards II: air conditioning --; 4; Logistical Territories --; Circumferential and surface geographies --; Logistical territories --; Port ontologies --; A ship-centric ontology of the urban? --; Airport territories --; The production of Hong Kong International Airport --; 5; Centres of Calculation --; CBD: the central business district as a `centre of calculation' --; Office geographies --; Bodies and work --; Saskia Sassen's financial centres --; Metrologies of centrality: critical accounting --; Calculable city space --; Global cities and the `super-rich' --; Moral geographies --; Forensic urban geography --; 6; World-Making --; Models, experts and consultants --; Actualization --; The selling of the Silicon Valley model --; Management consultancy as worlding practice --; Co-presence and business travel --; Gurus and urbanologists --; San Francisco and the global expansion of Uber --; Testbeds and experimentation --; Urban laboratories: New Songdo and Masdar City --; CONCLUSIONS --; Distance and panorama --; Global cities are miscellaneous concentrations of firms --; Calculated territories --; Power and cities --; Ethnographic sensitivities
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