Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- Part 1 Introduction: world city, hypothesis and context
- Part 2 Cities in systems
- 5 Cities in global matrices: toward mapping the world-system's city system
- 6 World cities, multinational corporations, and urban hierarchy: the case of the United States
- 7 Transport and the world city paradigm
- 8 The world city hypothesis: reflections from the periphery
- 9 Global logics in the Caribbean city system: the case of Miami
- 10 Comparing Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles: testing some world cities hypotheses
- 11 ‘Going global’ in the semi-periphery: world cities as political projects. The case of Toronto
- Part 3 Politics and policy in world cities: theory and practice
- Appendix The world city hypothesis
- Index
10 - Comparing Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles: testing some world cities hypotheses
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 October 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- Part 1 Introduction: world city, hypothesis and context
- Part 2 Cities in systems
- 5 Cities in global matrices: toward mapping the world-system's city system
- 6 World cities, multinational corporations, and urban hierarchy: the case of the United States
- 7 Transport and the world city paradigm
- 8 The world city hypothesis: reflections from the periphery
- 9 Global logics in the Caribbean city system: the case of Miami
- 10 Comparing Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles: testing some world cities hypotheses
- 11 ‘Going global’ in the semi-periphery: world cities as political projects. The case of Toronto
- Part 3 Politics and policy in world cities: theory and practice
- Appendix The world city hypothesis
- Index
Summary
Introduction
Much of the literature generated out of the powerful ‘world cities hypothesis’ (more accurately, a set of complex and suggestive hypotheses) framed by Friedmann and Wolff (1982) and Friedmann (1986, see appendix) has tended to emphasize similarities among world cities, attributing these congruencies to global changes in economic organization, labour flows, and finance capital. Sassen (e.g. 1988) has made significant contributions to this new literature by examining the flows of capital and labour between countries of the Third World and the largest American cities, and her most recent book (1991) has highlighted similarities in such historically and culturally divergent settings as New York, London, and Tokyo, attributing them to the global processes of economic restructuring and the impact of transnational finance capital and the ‘trade’ in money.
In the past decade there have also been some excellent studies of the effects of global economic restructuring on specific world cities. On New York, for example, there is, in addition to Sassen (1989), the article by Ross and Trachte (1983) and a book edited by Mollenkopf and Castells (1991). Early on, Soja, Morales, and Wolff (1983) tried to trace the effects of the international economy on Los Angeles; and Allardice et al. (1988) and Squires et al. (1987) have published somewhat less satisfying studies of the changing economy of Chicago.
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- World Cities in a World-System , pp. 171 - 191Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1995
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