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| List of plates | |
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| List of contributors | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Editors' introduction: global city theory in retrospect and prospect | |
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| Global City Formation: Emergence of a Concept and Research Agenda | |
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| Introduction to Part One | |
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| Prologue: "The Metropolitan Explosion" | |
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| "Divisions of Space and Time in Europe" | |
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| "Urban Specialization in the World System: An Investigation of Historical Cases" | |
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| "Global City Formation in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles: An Historical Perspective" | |
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| "The New International Division of Labor, Multinational Corporations and Urban Hierarchy" | |
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| "World City Formation: An Agenda for Research and Action" | |
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| "The World City Hypothesis" | |
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| Structures, Dynamics and Geographies of Global City Formation | |
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| Introduction to Part Two | |
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| Prologue: "100-mile Cities" | |
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| "Cities and Communities in the Global Economy" | |
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| "Locating Cities on Global Circuits" | |
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| "World-city Network: A New Metageography?" | |
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| "Global Cities and Global Classes: The Peripheralization of Labor in New York City" | |
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| "Inequality in Global City-regions" | |
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| "Global Grids of Glass: On Global Cities, Telecommunications and Planetary Urban Networks" | |
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| Local Pathways of Global City Formation: Classic and Contemporary Case Studies | |
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| Introduction to Part Three | |
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| Prologue: "Cities, the Informational Society and the Global Economy" | |
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| "The City as a Landscape of Power: London and New York as Global Financial Capitals" | |
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| "The Urban Restructuring Process in Tokyo in the 1980s: Transforming Tokyo into a World City" | |
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| "Detroit and Houston: Two Cities in Global Perspective" | |
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| "Global City Zurich: Paradigms of Urban Development" | |
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| "Global Cities and Developmental States: New York, Tokyo and Seoul" | |
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| "The Stimulus of a Little Confusion: A Contemporary Comparison of Amsterdam and Los Angeles" | |
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| Globalization, Urbanization and Uneven Development: Perspectives on Global City Formation in/from the Global South | |
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| Introduction to Part Four | |
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| Prologue: "A Global Agora vs. Gated City-regions" | |
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| "Building, Architecture, and the New International Division of Labor" | |
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| "The World City Hypothesis: Reflections from the Periphery" | |
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| "'Fourth World' Cities in the Global Economy: The Case of Phnom Penh, Cambodia" | |
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| "Global and World Cities: A View from off the Map" | |
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| "Globalization and the Corporate Geography of Cities in the Less-developed World" | |
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| "Sao Paulo: Outsourcing and Downgrading of Labor in a Globalizing City" | |
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| Contested Cities: State Restructuring, Local Politics and Civil Society | |
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| Introduction to Part Five | |
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| Prologue: "The Global City as World Order" | |
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| "Global Cities, 'Glocal' States: Global City Formation and State Territorial Restructuring in Contemporary Europe" | |
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| "World City Formation on the Asia-Pacific Rim: Poverty, 'Everyday' Forms of Civil Society and Environmental Management" | |
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| "'Global Cities' vs. 'global cities': Rethinking Contemporary Urbanism as Public Ecology" | |
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| "The Neglected Builder of Global Cities" | |
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| "The Globalization of Frankfurt am Main: Core, Periphery and Social Conflict" | |
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| "Urban Social Movements in an Era of Globalization" | |
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| Representation, Identity and Culture in Global Cities: Rethinking the Local and the Global | |
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| Introduction to Part Six | |
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| Prologue: "Towards Cosmopolis: A Postmodern Agenda" | |
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| "The Cultural Role of World Cities" | |
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| "World Cities: Global? Postcolonial? Postimperial? Or Just the Result of Happenstance? Some Cultural Comments" | |
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| "'Global Media Cities': Major Nodes of Globalizing Culture and Media Industries" | |
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| "Willing the Global City: Berlin's Cultural Strategies of Inter-urban Competition after 1989" | |
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| "Exploring Colombo: The Relevance of a Knowledge of New York" | |
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| "Culturing the World City: An Exhibition of the Global Present" | |
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| Emerging Issues in Global Cities Research: Refinements, Critiques and New Frontiers | |
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| Introduction to Part Seven | |
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| Prologue: "Whose City is it?" | |
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| "Space in the Globalizing City" | |
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| "Globalization and the Rise of City-regions" | |
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| "The Global Cities Discourse: A Return to the Master Narrative?" | |
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| "Immigration and the Global City Hypothesis: Towards an Alternative Research Agenda" | |
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| "Pathways to Global City Formation: A View from the Developmental City-state of Singapore" | |
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| "World City Topologies" | |
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| "The Urban Revolution" | |
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| Illustration credits | |
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| Copyright information | |
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| Index | |