World City

INTRODUCTION: ‘The Future of Our World’?.

PART I: Inventing a World City.

1. Capital Delight.

2. ‘A successful city, but...’.

3. Imagining the city.

PART II: The World City in the Country.

4. The Golden Goose?.

5. An alternative regional geography.

6. Who owes whom?.

7. Reworking the geographies of allegiance.

PART III: The World City in the World.

8. Grounding the Global.

9. Identity, place, responsibility.

10. A politics of place beyond place.

CONCLUDING REFLECTIONS.

Notes.

References.

Index