Introduction : Global city, take 2 : a view from urban history / Pierre-Yves Saunier -- In the precincts of the global city : the transnational network of municipal affairs in Mebourne, Australia, at the end of the nineteenth century / Andrew Brown-May -- Mediterranean connections : the circulation of municipal knowledge and practices during the Ottoman reforms, c. 1830-1910 / Nora Lafi -- Pacific crossings? Urban progressivism in modern Japan / Jeffrey Hanes -- A city in the world of cities : Lyon, France : municipal associations as political resources in the twentieth century / Renaud Payre and Pierre-Yves Saunier -- Selling the city-state : planning and housing in Singapore, 1945-1990 / Nancy H. Kwak -- Transnational municipalism in a Europe of second cities : rebuilding Birmingham with municipal networks / Shane Ewen -- Mayor Edward I. Koch and New York's municipal foreign policy, 1977-1990 / Jonathan Soffer -- The municipal making of transnational networks : a case study of Montreal's twinning with Shanghai / Yon Hsu -- Latin American municipalities in transnational networks : reforming municipal government in Rosario, Argentina and Montevideo, Uruguay in the 1990s / Silvia Robin and Sébastian Velut -- Lost in translation? Mapping, moulding, and managing the transnational municipal moment / Shane Ewen -- Cities, competition, and cooperation : prospect meets retrospect / Marjatta Hietala
This collection uses the transnational activities of municipal urban governments to historicize the origins and development of the global city, focusing on how urban problems were addressed with concepts that emerged from the "world in between" nations and cities
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