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A review essay on books by (1) Neil Brenner, Bob Jessop, Martin Jones, & Gordon Macleod, State/Space: A Reader (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2003); (2) Saskia Sassen (Ed), Global Networks, Linked Cities (London & New York: Routledge, 2002); (3) Allen J. Scott (Ed), Global City-Regions (Oxford: Oxford U Prfess, 2002); (4) John Friedmann, The Prospect of Cities (Minneapolis: U Minnesota Press, 2002); (5) Groupment Economie Mondiale, Tiers-Monde, Developpement, Villes et citadins dans la mondialisation ([Cities and Citadels in Globalization] Paris: Karthala, 2003); (6) World Bank, World Development Report 2003: Sustainable Development in a Dynamic World, Washington, DC: World Bank, 2003); (7) Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development, Territorial Outlook (Paris: OECD, 2001); (8) Rural Development-Urban Development Joint Seminar, Integratign Rural Development and Small Urban Centers: An Evolving Framework for Effective Regional and Local Economic Development (World Bank/IFC Headquarters, Washington, DC, 2003); & (9) United Nations Centre for Human Settlements, Cities in a Globalizing World: Global Report on Human Settlements 2001 (London: Earthscan Publications, 2001).

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