Spatial transformations of cities: Global city-region? Mega-city region?

International Handbook of Globalization and World Cities

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 83-96

  Pain, Kathy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

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