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| List of illustrations | |
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| List of tables | |
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| List of boxes | |
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| About the authors | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Walk-through tour | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Foundations | |
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| Cities as places and spaces | |
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| Cities as places | |
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| Exploring further 1.1 | |
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| Identity, community, and security | |
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| Places as the site of our identity | |
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| Places as the site of community | |
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| Places as sites of security | |
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| Studying the city 1.1 | |
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| Human beings make and remake places | |
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| Place and space | |
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| Studying the city 1.2 | |
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| Making the city better 1.1 | |
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| Cities shape the fates of human beings | |
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| Cities and people | |
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| Social theories of urban space and place: The early perspectives | |
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| The social and theoretical roots of modern urban theory | |
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| Studying the city 2.1 | |
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| Ferdinand T�nnies: Community and society | |
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| Georg Simmel: The metropolis and mental life | |
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| T�nnies and Simmel: Further reflections | |
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| Exploring further 2.1 | |
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| The Chicago School of Sociology | |
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| The city as social space | |
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| The city, social change, and social order | |
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| Studying the city 2.2 | |
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| Life in the city as a way of life | |
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| Making the city better 2.1 | |
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| Early social theories of urban life | |
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| Social theories of urban space and place: Perspectives in the post-World War II era | |
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| Theoretical descendents of Marx | |
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| Manuel Castells and the1 urban question | |
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| David Harvey: Injustice and inequality in the city | |
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| John Logan and Harvey Molotch: The city as a growth machine | |
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| Making the city better 3.1 | |
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| Making the city better 3.2 | |
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| Further reflections: Marx and the critique of modern cities | |
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| The return to place and the turn to culture | |
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| Jane Jacobs and the discovery of community in the modern metropolis | |
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| Studying the city 3.1 | |
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| Sharon Zukin and the turn to culture | |
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| Exploring further 3.1 | |
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| Going global: The 1980s and the creation of the global city | |
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| Evaluating theories of the city | |
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| Methods and rules for the study of cities | |
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| First rules for doing a social science of cities | |
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| The rule of validity | |
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| The rule of reliability | |
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| Exploring further 4.1 | |
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| Cities and the question of numbers | |
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| Studying the city 4.1 79 The city as a case study | |
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| The city as the typical case | |
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| The city as a prototypical case | |
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| Ethnographic and historical case studies | |
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| Ethnographic case studies | |
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| Studying the city 4.2 | |
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| Historical case studies | |
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| From one to multiple cases | |
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| Studying the city 4.3 | |
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| A last but very important rule on doing a good social science of cities: Fitting good theory to good methods | |
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| And what about insight? | |
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| The Changing Metropolis | |
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| The metropolis and its expansion: Early insights and basic principles | |
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| Metropolitan growth: Basic features | |
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| The metropolis and its expansion | |
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| The center of the city | |
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| The zone of transition | |
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| The zone of commuters | |
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| Assessing the concentric zone theory | |
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| The natural areas of the city | |
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| Alternative views of the city | |
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| Studying the city 5.1 | |
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| The mobility of people and groups in the metropolis | |
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| Social differences and migration in the metropolis | |
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| Exploring further 5.1 | |
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| Migration and the expansion of the metropolis | |
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| The metropolitan center and its links to the hinterlands | |
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| Human agents and social institutions in the expansion of the metropolis | |
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| Studying the city 5.2 | |
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| Making the city better 5.1 | |
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| Urban growth, institutions, and human agents | |
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| The origins and development of suburbs | |
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| What is a suburb? Definitions and variations | |
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| Alternative suburban forms | |
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| A brief history of suburban development | |
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| The original suburbs | |
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| Culture and the demand for suburban living | |
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| Making the city better 6.1 | |
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| Exploring further 6.1 | |
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| Early suburban diversity | |
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| Transportation technologies and suburban expansion | |
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| Making the city better 6.2 | |
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| The role of policy in suburban expansion | |
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| The mass production of US suburbs | |
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| Changes and challenges in contemporary suburbs | |
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| Privatization and gated communities | |
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| The varied fates of older suburbs | |
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| Suburbs as places | |
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| Studying the city 6.1 | |
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| Changing metropolitan landscapes after World War II | |
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| Los Angeles: The prototype of the postwar metropolis | |
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| Exploring further 7.1 | |
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| The changing metropolitan order | |
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| The decline - of older industrial cities | |
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| The rise of the postindustrial/postmodern metropolitan regions | |
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| The importance of transportation, again | |
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| The remaking of places and spaces: The profound human and political consequences | |
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| Making the city better 7.1 | |
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| The emerging global economy: A brief overview | |
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| Studying the city 7.1 | |
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| People, place, and space in a global world | |
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| The Metropolis and Social Inequalities | |
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| The early metropolis as a place of inequality | |
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| Colonial cities as unequal places | |
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| Early urban diversity | |
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| Cities of immigrants | |
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| Immigrant lives: New York's Five Points | |
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| Studying the city 8.1 | |
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| The Five Points case in context | |
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| Early reform and intervention efforts | |
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| Making the American ghetto | |
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| Integrated beginnings | |
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| Making the city better 8.1 | |
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| New neighbors, new tensions | |
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| The perpetuation and implications of black ghettos | |
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| Studying the city 8.2 | |
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| Exploring further 8.1 | |
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| The significance of urban diversity and inequality | |
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| Inequality and diversity in the post-World War II metropolis | |
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| Inequality and the metropolis | |
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| Poverty and race | |
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| Exploring further 9.1 | |
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| Poverty and homelessness | |
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| Making the city better 9.1 | |
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| Gentrification and the remaking of the metropolis | |
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| Exploring further 9.2 | |
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| Studying the city 9.1 | |
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| Social diversity and the transformed metropolis | |
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| The new immigration and the transformation of the metropolis | |
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| Europe | |
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| The United States and Canada | |
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| Reconstructing the contemporary metropolis: New ethnic enclaves | |
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| Studying the city 9.2 | |
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| Other dimensions of urban diversity | |
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| Making the city better 9.2 | |
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| The Western metropolis in flux | |
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| The Metropolis in the Developing World | |
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| Urbanization and urban places in developing-country cities | |
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| Urbanization: The basic path and its impact on place | |
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| Developing-country cities in historical perspective | |
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| Studying the city 10.1 | |
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| The basic dimensions of urbanization | |
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| Urban hierarchy | |
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| Urban primacy | |
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| Over-urbanization versus under-urbanization | |
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| Studying the city 10.2 | |
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| Natural increase and in-migration | |
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| From process and system to place | |
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| A basic profile with multiple wrinkles | |
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| Megacities as places: Opportunities and challenges | |
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| Size and density | |
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| Creating wealth and sustaining poverty | |
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| Exploring further 10.1 | |
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| Making the city better 10.1 | |
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| The developing megacity as a lived place | |
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| Making the city better 10.2 | |
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| Governing the megacities | |
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| Studying the city 10.3 | |
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| Reassessing the developing city | |
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| Cities in the global economy | |
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| Cities in a globalizing world: Theoretical background | |
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| Emerging cities in the global economy | |
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| Yiwu, China | |
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| Rajarhat, India | |
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| Further Reflections on Yiwu | |
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| Re-emerging cities in the global economy | |
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| Berlin, Germany: A once-prosperous, then challenged, and now re-emerging local culture | |
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| Shanghai, China: Local change in a rising renaissance city | |
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| Moving more deeply into the global economy | |
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| Dongguan, China: A place transformed from a rural township into a global factory-city | |
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| Studying the city 11.1 | |
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| Dubai, United Arab Emirates: From desert to urban miracle to mirage | |
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| Cities in a fully networked global economy | |
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| The regional dimension and mediation of cities | |
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| Becoming globally networked | |
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| Exploring further 11.1 | |
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| Interdependence between cities and the global economy | |
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| Studying the city 11.2 | |
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| Systematic constraint and individual flexibility | |
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| The Global restructuring of cities | |
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| Making the city better 11.1 | |
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| Challenges of Today and the Metropolis Of The Future | |
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| Urban environments and sustainability | |
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| Making use of nature | |
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| Natural attributes and urban development | |
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| Interpreting and manipulating nature | |
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| Studying the city 12.1 | |
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| Inviting "disaster" | |
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| Why rebuild? | |
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| Urban environments | |
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| Local environmental concerns | |
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| Making the city better 12.1 | |
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| Environment and inequality | |
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| Making the city better 12.2 | |
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| Global environmental concerns | |
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| Urbanization's environmental impacts | |
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| Cities and climate change | |
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| Addressing environmental issues: Toward sustainability | |
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| Exploring further 12.1 | |
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| The remaking and future of cities | |
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| Between place and space: Reinforcing a theoretical vision | |
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| Remaking cities from above and at critical moments | |
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| The crisis of Detroit | |
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| The remaking of Detroit | |
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| Making the city better 13.1 | |
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| Place-remaking on a larger scale | |
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| Daily place-remaking from below | |
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| Remaking neighborhoods and communities | |
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| The remaking of Brooklyn, New York | |
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| From Detroit and New York to China and Shanghai - again | |
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| Remaking cities for the future | |
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| Scaling up and looking forward | |
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| Studying the city 13.1 | |
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| The China and India scenarios and their wider implications | |
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| Cities of the future and the future of cities | |
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| Making the city better 13.2 | |
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| Making the city better 13.3 | |
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| Exploring further 13.1 | |
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| A final look at the twenty-first-century city | |
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| Glossary | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |