Table of Contents:
  • List of illustrations
  • Acknowledgment
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Globalization and the city
  • 3. From world cities to globalizing cities
  • 4. Globalizing cities
  • Black hole and loose connections
  • 6. Tensions in the global city
  • 7. The modalities of the global city
  • 8. Going for gold: globalizing the Olympics, localizing the Games
  • 9. The super-rich and the global city
  • 10. The global, the city and the body
  • References
  • Index