Global City-Regions: Trends, Theory, Policy

It seeks at once to define the question of global city-regions and to describe the internal and external dynamics that shape them it proposes a theorization of global city-regions based on their economic and political responses to intensifying levels of globalization and it offers a number of policy insights into the severe social problems that confront global city-regions as they come face to face with an economically and politically neoliberal world. Global City-Regions represents a multifaceted effort to deal with the many different issues raised by these developments. The processes of global economic integration and accelerated urban growth make traditional planning and policy strategies in these regions increasingly inadequate, while more effective approaches remain largely in various stages of hypothesis and experimentation. These city-regions are expanding vigorously, and they present many new and deep challenges to researchers and policy-makers in both the more developed and less developed parts of the world. There are now more than three hundred city-regions around the world with populations greater than one million.

Global City-Regions: Trends, Theory, Policy