TY - BOOK ID - 80731975 TI - Global urban analysis PY - 2011 SN - 1280873612 9786613714923 1136539298 113653928X 1849775419 9781136539282 9781849775410 9781849712132 1849712131 9781136539244 9781136539299 9781138975248 PB - London Washington, DC Earthscan DB - UniCat KW - Urban economics. KW - Cities and towns. KW - Globalization KW - Global cities KW - Municipalities KW - Towns KW - Urban areas KW - Urban systems KW - Human settlements KW - Sociology, Urban KW - Cities and towns KW - City economics KW - Economics of cities KW - Economics KW - Economic aspects. KW - Economic aspects UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:80731975 AB - Global Urban Analysis provides a unique insight into the contemporary world economy through a focus on cities. It is based upon a large-scale customised data collection on how leading businesses use cities across the world: as headquarter locations, for finance, for professional and creative services, for media. These data - involving up to 2000 firms and over 500 cities - provide evidence for both how the leading cities, sometimes called global cities, are coming to dominate the world economy, and how hundreds of other cities are faring in this brave new urban world. Thus can the lik ER -