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Global Metropolitan: Globalizing Cities in a Capitalist World
- John Rennie Short
- History
- 21 July 2004
1. Introduction 2. Globalization and The City 3. From World City to Globalizing City 4. Globalizing Cities 5. Black Holes and Loose Connections in a Global Urban Hierarchy 6. Tensions in The Global…
Globalization and the city
- John Rennie Short, Yeong-Hyun Kim
- History
- 9 April 1999
1. Introduction 2. Part I Going Global 3. The Global Discourse - A New Fantasy? 4. Globalization and the City Part II Economic Globalization and Urban Economies 5. A Globalized Economy with Uneven…
Globalization, cities and the Summer Olympics
- John Rennie Short
- Education
- 26 November 2008
This study examines the relationship between the increasing globalization of the Summer Olympics and the effect on host cities. The impact of the Games on city structure, the competition to host the…
Megalopolis 50 Years on: The Transformation of a City Region
- Thomas J. Vicino, Bernadette Hanlon, John Rennie Short
- History, Sociology
- 21 May 2007
This article examines Megalopolis 50 years after Gottmann’s seminal study of the most urbanized region of the US Eastern Seaboard. His study provides an invaluable datum point, and we use it as a…
The New Metropolitan Reality in the US: Rethinking the Traditional Model
- Bernadette Hanlon, Thomas J. Vicino, John Rennie Short
- Economics
- 1 November 2006
This paper critically evaluates the traditional metropolitan model of an urban core and a homogeneous suburban ring. Using place data from the US Bureau of the Census from 1980 to 2000, it examines…
Reconstructing the Image of an Industrial City
- John Rennie Short, L. Benton, W. Luce, J. Walton
- Sociology
- 1 June 1993
Abstract There is increasing competition between cities to attract investment. Older industrial cities have a particularly difficult time. It is in this context that there is an attempt to rewrite…
Getting away with it? Exposing the geographies of the super-rich
- J. Beaverstock, Philip G. Hubbard, John Rennie Short
- Economics
- 1 July 2004
Cultural Globalization, Global English, and Geography Journals
- John Rennie Short, Armando Boniche, Yeong-Hyun Kim, Patrick Li Li
- Linguistics
- 1 February 2001
In this paper we review the debate on cultural globalization and examine the rise of English as a form of global communication. The implications of these trends for the geographical community are…
Urban Theory: A Critical Assessment
- John Rennie Short
- History
- 22 August 2006
Introduction PART I: THEORIZING THE CITY IN TIME 1. Theorizing the Premodern City 2. Theorizing the Modern City 3. Theorizing the Postmodern City PART II: THEORIZING THE CITY IN SPACE 4. The City as…
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