City mercantilism and consequences

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http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10708-007-9077-9

Urban areas compete with one another for people, goods, capital, ideas and other inputs of economic activity. Under the rubric of globalization, instead of only maintaining or improving the initial stock of assets in a city, the power of a place to attract outside flows of economic activity from elsewhere is increasingly important to economic development. Similarly, global or world cities are characterized as the command and control points through which these global economic flows operate.

Migrants, markets and multinationals: city competition

Globalization has increased the role of a country's capital city as an agent of cross-national cooperation.

http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs12140-000-0029-y

Globalization and inter-city cooperation in Asia

From global city competition to cooperation (pdf)

Quality of Life and City Competitiveness -- Rogerson 36 (56): 96

This Research Bulletin has been published in Cities , 19 (4), (2002), 231-241. doi: 10.1016/S0264-2751(02)00020-3 Please refer to the published version when quoting the paper. (Z) P.J. Taylor, D.R.F.

http://www.lboro.ac.uk/gawc/rb/rb56.html

Diversity and Power in the World City Network

Gentrification as Global Urban Strategy

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Rogerson.pdf (pdf)

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2001/0205.florida.html

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