This classic work chronicles how New York, London, and Tokyo became command centers for the global economy and in the process underwent a series of massive and

This collection uses the transnational activities of municipal urban governments to historicize the origins and development of the global city, focusing on how

The world today is far less a global village than a “global city”, as global network of multidimensional urban spaces of congestion prominently forming –

Istanbul explores how to live with difference through the prism of an age-old, cutting-edge city whose people have long confronted the challenge of sharing spac

Why have some cities become great global urban centers, and what cities will be future leaders? From Athens and Rome in ancient times to New York and Singapore