Download or read book Varieties of Capital Cities written by David Kaufmann and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2018-08-31 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The political and symbolic centrality of capital cities has been challenged by increasing economic globalization. This is especially true of secondary capital cities; capital cities which, while being the seat of national political power, are not the primary economic city of their nation state. David Kaufmann examines the unique challenges that these cities face entering globalised, inter-urban competition while not possessing a competitive political economy.