Global city theory and the new urban politics twenty years on: The case for a geohistorical materialist approach to the (New) urban politics of global cities

Urban Studies

Volumn 48, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2473-2493

  Ancien, Delphine ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

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CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; LITERATURE REVIEW; LOCATION THEORY; RESEARCH WORK; THEORETICAL STUDY; URBAN POLITICS; WORLD CITY;

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EID: 79961185459     PISSN: 00420980     EISSN: 1360063X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0042098011411945     Document Type: Article

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