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Tables of Contents for The Global City
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of Tables
xi
Preface to the New Edition
xvii
Acknowledgments
xxv
Overview
3
14
PART ONE: THE GEOGRAPHY AND COMPOSITION OF GLOBALIZATION
17
68
Dispersal and New Forms of Centralization
23
14
Mobility and Agglomeration
24
8
Capital Mobility and Labor Market Formation
32
2
Conclusion
34
3
New Patterns in Foreign Direct Investment
37
28
Major Patterns
37
7
International Transactions in Services
44
19
Conclusion
63
2
Internationalization and Expansion of the Financial Industry
65
20
Conditions and Components of Growth
66
8
The Global Capital Market Today
74
4
Financial Crises
78
5
Conclusion
83
2
PART TWO: THE ECONOMIC ORDER OF THE GLOBAL CITY
85
112
The Producer Services
90
37
The Category Services
92
18
The Spatial Organization of Finance
110
12
New Forms of Centrality
122
4
Conclusion
126
1
Global Cities: Postindustrial Production Sites
127
44
Location of Producer Services: Nation, Region, and City
130
10
New Elements in the Urban Hierarchy
140
27
Conclusion
167
4
Elements of a Global Urban System: Networks and Hierarchies
171
26
Towards Networked Systems
172
3
Expansion and Concentration
175
12
Leading Currencies in International Transactions
187
3
The International Property Market
190
5
Conclusion
195
2
PART THREE: THE SOCIAL ORDER OF THE GLOBAL CITY
197
130
Employment and Earnings
201
50
Three Cities, One Tale?
201
20
Earnings
221
28
Conclusion
249
2
Economic Restructuring as Class and Spatial Polarization
251
76
Overall Effects of Leading Industries
252
4
Social Geography
256
28
Consumption
284
5
Casual and Informal Labor Markets
289
16
Race and Nationality in the Labor Market
305
18
Conclusion
323
4
IN CONCLUSION
327
18
A New Urban Regime?
329
16
Epilogue
345
38
The Global City Model
346
9
The Financial Order
355
4
The Producer Services
359
2
Social and Spatial Polarization
361
6
Appendices
A Classification of Producer Services by U.S., Japanese, and British SIC
367
2
B Definitions of Urban Units: Tokyo, London, New York
369
4
C Population of Selected Prefectures and Major Prefectural Cities
373
1
D Tokyo's Land Market
374
9
Bibliography
383
52
Index
435