02418cam a2200421 i 45000010009000000050017000090080041000260100017000670200030000840200031001140200026001450200027001710350013001980400028002110420008002390430012002470500022002590820015002811000035002962450063003312640033003943000045004273360026004723370028004983380027005264900023005535040041005765200973006176500022015906500019016126500039016316500036016708560065017069060045017719420015018169520148018319990017019792149278320260606121629.0200407s2020    caua     b    000 0 eng    a  2020013242  a9789353882990q(hardback)  a9789353883027q(paperback)  z9789353883003q(epub)  z9789353883010q(ebook)  a21492783  aDLCbengerdacDLCdDLC  apcc  aa-cc---00aHT119b.Z487 202000a307.762231 aZhou, Zhenhua,d1954-eauthor.10aGlobal cities :bpast, present and future /cZhou Zhenhua. 1aLos Angeles ;bSAGE,c[2020]  ax, 424 pages :billustrations ;c22  cm.  atextbtxt2rdacontent  aunmediatedbn2rdamedia  avolumebnc2rdacarrier0 aSage China studies  aIncludes bibliographical references.  a"The pivotal nodes in the world city network are global cities---cities of supreme strategic value in global economy and politics, science and technology, culture, and society. Global Cities: Past, Present and Future explores the evolution of global cities---their formation, rise, development and tendencies. This book summarizes and interprets global tendencies and also puts forward a theoretical framework that will help researchers understand these cities better. It also makes a compelling case for understanding every city in terms of evolutionary dynamics. The first eight chapters of the book discuss the ontology of global city evolution and patterns, forms and trends of development. The last two chapters study the case of Shanghai, which aims to build itself into an important global city by 2050. This case study illustrates the shaping of a new type of global city that demonstrates new characteristics of the globalized space"--cProvided by publisher. 0aCities and towns. 0aGlobalization. 0aCities and townszChinazShanghai. 0aGlobalizationzChinazShanghai.  uhttps://sk.sagepub.com/books/global-citiesyRead SAGE E-Book  a7bcbccorignewd1eecipf20gy-gencatlg  2ddccEBOOK  00102ddc40708EBOOKaMESbMEScORd2026-06-06l0o307.76r2026-06-06 12:17:21uhttps://sk.sagepub.com/books/global-citiesw2026-06-06yEBOOK  c44730d44730