After the ‘World City’ has Globalised: Four Agendas Towards a More Nuanced Framework for Global Urban Research

Geography Compass

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 389-398

  Sigler, Thomas J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLOBALIZATION; LANGUAGE; NEOLIBERALISM; RESEARCH; URBANIZATION; WORLD CITY;

EID: 84994632234     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17498198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gec3.12276     Document Type: Article

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