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Some cities seem destined to become major financial capitals, yet never do-Seville, for instance, was the centre of Spain's opulent New World Empire, but failed to become a financial metropolis. Others, like former colonial backwater Hong Kong, defy the odds by growing into major trading centres. What are the key factors distinguishing those cities that become wealthy from those that don't? Christopher Kennedy illuminates how geography, technology, and especially the infrastructure of urban economies allow cities to develop and thrive. offers an accessible introduction to urban economies that 'will change the way you think about cities.'

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'Drawing on an extensive body of literature and examples from prosperous and not-so-prosperous cities around the world this book attampts to explain the evolution of great world cities...Vast mass of literature is coupled with illustrative cases in a way that makes the book informative and an enjoyable reading experience.' -- Kristina Vaarst Anderson Regional Studies, vol46:07:2012

’Drawing on an extensive body of literature and examples from prosperous and not-so-prosperous cities around the world this book attampts to explain the evolution of great world cities....Vast mass of literature is coupled with illustrative cases in a way that makes the book informative and an enjoyable reading experience.’ -- Kristina Vaarst Anderson * Regional Studies, vol46:07:2012 * ‘Kennedy has written a lively and thoughtful book… he carefully builds a novel argument about wealth creation and urban form and does so in an accessible way that teaches urban history and economic concepts as it goes.’ -- Clinton J. Andrews * Journal of Industrial Ecology, 26 October 2012 *

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Christopher Kennedy is a professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Toronto.

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