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OverviewThis book is a collection of selected papers presented in the 2012 annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers in New York honoring James O. Wheeler (1938-2010). The eight papers are informed and inspired by James O. Wheeler's many contributions to urban geography, particularly in the areas of urban hierarchy, information flows, cities in the telecommunications age, and cities as corporate command and control centers. They adopt and extend Jim Wheeler’s corporate and/or hierarchical approaches to discuss institutional investment in the U.S., corporate interlocking directorates and fast-growing firms in Canada, corporate intangible assets in South Korea, urban development in Beijing and Macau, and social and cultural diversity of global cities such as New York. Although these two approaches are not the fanciest ones in today's urban geography, they are essential to the understanding of how urban areas are connected and what drives this interconnectedness in this age of globalization. This book was previously published as a special issue of Urban Geography. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Hongmian Gong (Hunter College, City University of New York, USA)Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Weight: 0.453kg ISBN: 9780367026318ISBN 10: 0367026317 Pages: 170 Publication Date: 23 August 2018 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education , Undergraduate Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents1. Hierarchy, information, and power: cities as corporate command and control centers. 2. The economic geography of institutional investment in the United States, 2010 3. The geography of Canadian interlocking directorates: how do they relate to brain circulation? 4. Fast-growing firms as elements of change in Canada’s headquarters city system 5. Interaction of corporate and urban systems: accumulation of intangible assets 6. Macau’s role as a recreation/tourist center in the Pearl River Delta city-region 7. Planning Beijing: socialist city, transitional city, and global city 8. Global cities, cosmopolitanism, and geographies of tolerance 9. A method for delineating a hierarchically networked structure of urban landscapeReviewsAuthor InformationHongmian Gong is a Professor of Geography at Hunter College and Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Her research interests are urban service economies in the U.S. and China and GIS/GPS/mobile phone applications in urban transportation. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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