Cities, Citizens, and Technologies : Urban Life and Postmodernity. by Geyh, Paula

Table of Contents: “…Legible cities : urban signs and subjects -- Urban grids and urban imaginary : city to cyberspace, cyberspace to city -- The city of control and the polis -- City moves : urban spaces and motion -- Global cities and citizens.…”
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Remaking the modern : space, relocation, and the politics of identity in a global Cairo / Farha Ghannam. by Ghannam, Farha, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Relocation and the creation of a global city -- Relocation and the daily use of "modern" spaces -- Old places, new identities -- Gender and the struggle over public spaces -- Religion in a global era -- Roads to prosperity.…”
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Transnational feminism and women's movements in post-1997 Hong Kong : solidarity beyond the state / Adelyn Lim. by Lim, Adelyn

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- A historical perspective of women's activism in Hong Kong -- Dynamics of diversity -- Boundaries and spaces -- Objectified body/embodied subject -- Global cities, global workers, global unions -- Conclusion -- Methodological appendixes.…”
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City bound : how states stifle urban innovation / Gerald E. Frug and David J. Barron. by Frug, Gerald E., 1939-2023

Table of Contents: “…City structures and urban theory -- City structures and local autonomy -- Home rule -- Revenue and expenditures -- Land use and development -- Education -- The global city -- The tourist city -- The middle class city -- The regional city.…”
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Filipino crosscurrents : oceanographies of seafaring, masculinities, and globalization / Kale Bantigue Fajardo. by Fajardo, Kale Bantigue

Table of Contents: “…The race of the century: galleons and global city desires in Manila -- Ashore and away: Filipino seamen as heroes and deserters -- Ethnography in blue: navigating time-space in the global economy -- Transportation: seamen and tomboys in ports and at sea.…”
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Global Rome : changing faces of the eternal city / edited by Isabella Clough Marinaro and Bjorn Thomassen.

Table of Contents: “…ROME: THE LOCAL AND THE GLOBAL CITY; 1 Diversely Global Rome; 2 The liberal, the Neoliberal, and the Illiberal: Dynamics of Diversity and Politics of Identity in Contemporary Rome; 3 Rome as a Global City: Mapping New Cultural and Political Boundaries; 4 Housing and Homelessness in Contemporary Rome; PART II. …”
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Potosí : the silver city that changed the world / Kris Lane. by Lane, Kris E., 1967-

Table of Contents: “…Bonanza -- Age of wind, age of iron -- The viceroy's great machine -- An improbable global city -- Secret judgments of God -- Decadence and rebirth -- From revival to revolution -- Summing up -- Epilogue : Potosí after independence -- Appendix. …”
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Under bright lights : gay Manila and the global scene / Bobby Benedicto. by Benedicto, Bobby, 1982-

Table of Contents: “…Prologue : city of contradictions -- Introduction : making a scene -- Automobility and the gay cityscape -- Elsewhere, between Palawan and the global city -- The specter of kabaklaan -- Transnational transit and the circuits of privilege -- White noise and the shock of racial shame -- Coda : nowhere to go.…”
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Deleuze, cinema and national identity : narrative time in national contexts / David Martin-Jones. by Martin-Jones, David

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Deleuze, film studies and national identity -- History -- Memory -- National identity in the global city -- American triumphalism and the first Gulf War -- Renegotiating the national past after 9/11 -- The Pacific Rim -- Conclusion : blind chance and possible futures.…”

Immigration in Singapore / edited by Norman Vasu, Yeap Su Yin, Chan Wen Ling.

Table of Contents: “…Immigration in Singapore : an overview -- Angst, anxieties, and anger in a global city -- The politics of immigration -- Social integration of immigrants into multiracial Singapore -- Reconstructing Singapore as a cosmpolitan landscape -- "Family, worker or outsider" -- Whither integration? …”
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The creative industries : culture and policy / Terry Flew. by Flew, Terry

Table of Contents: “…Origins of creative industries policy -- International models of creative industries policy -- From culture industries to cultural economy -- Products, services, production and creative work -- Consumption, markets, technology and cultural trade -- Globalization, cities and creative spaces -- Creative industries and public policy.…”

Cities, networks, and global environmental governance : spaces of innovation, places of leadership / Sofie Bouteligier. by Bouteligier, Sofie

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- City networks for global environmental governance -- Networks, global cities, and environmental flows -- Methodology -- City networks and innovative global environmental governance -- City networks and conventional global environmental governance -- Conclusion: a networked urban world as vehicle for environmental sustainability.…”
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Street sex work and Canadian cities : resisting a dangerous order / Shawna Ferris. by Ferris, Shawna, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Anti-Prostitution Reporting, Policing, and Activism in Canada's Global Cities -- 3. Technologies of Resistance: Sex Worker Activism Online -4. …”
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Global divas : Filipino gay men in the diaspora / Martin F. Manalansan. by Manalansan, Martin F., 1960-

Table of Contents: “…The borders between bakla and gay -- Speaking in transit : queer language and translated lives -- "Out there" : the topography of race and desire in the global city -- The biyuti and drama of everyday life -- "To play with the world" : the pageantry of identities -- Tita Aida : intimate geographies of suffering -- Locating the diasporic deviant/diva.…”
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Cities, business, and the politics of urban violence in Latin America / Eduardo Moncada. by Moncada, Eduardo, 1977-

Table of Contents: “…Rethinking the politics of urban violence -- Parties, clientelism, and violence : exclusionary political order in Colombia -- Medellin : reshaping political order and criminal coexistence -- Cali : the derailment of a pioneering participatory project -- Bogota : building and branding a global city -- The politics of urban violence : comparisons and next steps.…”
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Landscape of discontent : urban sustainability in immigrant Paris / Andrew Newman. by Newman, Andrew, 1978-

Table of Contents: “…: Parks, Gardens, and Youth -- The End(s) of Urban Ecology in the Global City -- To Watch and Be Watched : Urban Design, Vigilance, and Contested Streets -- The Political Life of Small Urban Spaces -- Conclusion.…”
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Singapore Perspectives 2010 : Home. Heart. Horizon. by How, Tan Tarn

Table of Contents: “….; Section II One United People; Section III One Gracious Society; Section IV One Global City; Section V Conclusion; About the Contributors; About the Institute of Policy Studies.…”
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Staten Island : conservative bastion in a liberal city / Daniel C. Kramer and Richard M. Flanagan. by Kramer, Daniel C., 1934-

Table of Contents: “…Suburban borough in a global city -- Busted tunnels and rogue politicians -- Waiting for the bridge -- Blue collar backlash -- The end of urban liberalism -- Staten Island in the age of Reagan -- The landfill and the secession movement -- Fighting old battles -- Transition, tragedy and scandal in the new century -- The future of the forgotten borough -- Postscript: the 2010 midterm elections.…”
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Paris. by Christian, Lefevre

Table of Contents: “…4 The economy of Île-de-France: from national capital to global metropolis -- From deindustrialization to internationalization: the birth of a global city region -- From deindustrialization to tertiarization -- The birth of a global city region -- The specificities of the Île-de-France economy -- A national capital with an original model of economic development -- The national economic capital -- The ÎledeF rance economic model -- Specificities of the Île-de-France economy -- Public economy -- Significant industrial sector -- Weak financial sector -- Île-de-France's strong economic sectors…”
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Paris / Christian Lefevre. by Lefèvre, Christian

Table of Contents: “…From deindustrialization to internationalization: the birth of a global city region -- From deindustrialization to tertiarization -- The birth of a global city region -- The specificities of the Île-de-France economy -- A national capital with an original model of economic development -- The national economic capital -- The Île-de-France economic model -- Specificities of the Île-de-France economy -- Public economy -- Significant industrial sector -- Weak financial sector -- Île-de-France's strong economic sectors -- Small foreign population -- 5 Problems and challenges…”
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