Global City-Regions

Zusatztext A good-quality production with many eminent contributors ... will be of interest to urban scholars. Informationen zum Autor Allen J. Scott is Professor in both the Department of Policy Studies and the Department of Geography at the University of California, Los Angeles. He was a recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship in 1986-7 and was awarded Honors by the Association of American Geographers in 1987. He was elected as corresponding fellow of the British Academy in 1999. In the winter of 1998-9 he occupied the Andre Siegfried Chair in the Institut d'Etudes Politiques, Paris. His most recent books are Regions and the World Economy (Oxford University Press, 1998) and The Cultural Economy of Cities (Sage, 2000). Klappentext There are now more than three hundred city-regions around the world with populations of more than one million. As globalization intensifies, these city-regions come to pose many new questions and problems. This book presents a highly-original and multifaceted review of these issues by some of the leading researchers in the field. Zusammenfassung There are now more than three hundred city-regions around the world with populations of more than one million. As globalization intensifies, these city-regions come to pose many new questions and problems. This book presents a highly-original and multifaceted review of these issues by some of the leading researchers in the field.

Product details

• Authors: Allen J. Scott
• Assisted by: Allen J. Scott (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.03.2002
• EAN: 9780199252305
• ISBN: 978-0-19-925230-5
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 234 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Print on Demand
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance; Non-fiction book; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / International / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Strategic Planning, Economic Geography, International business, business strategy, Political Geography