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THE PURPOSE OF THIS PAPER IS TO MAKE EXPLICIT CERTAIN ASPECTS OF THE REDISTRIBUTION PROCEDURE IN THE ELECTORAL SYSTEM. THE AUTHORS ATTEMPT TO ACHIEVE THIS END BY TAKING A VERY BROAD PERSPECTIVE SO THAT THE OPERATION OF THE PARLIAMENTARY BOUNDARY COMMISSION IS SEEN ALONGSIDE SIMILAR WORK CARRIED OUT IN OTHER COUNTRIES WHICH ALSO ELECT REPRESENTATIVES FROM SINGLE MEMBER CONSTITUENCIES.

Peter J. Taylor has produced a sweeping, empirically grounded, defense of cities as fundamental building blocks of long-term, large scale social structures; a way of freeing social science from state-centric bias; and indeed, mankinds hope. However, the single greatest strength of this complex, seductive, argument is the insistence on treating cities relationally, as process. Here the key to understanding the significance of cities is by studying them in terms of the dynamic networks they form and in their relations to states. (Richard E. Lee, Binghamton University, US). -- The founding father of the famous Globalization and World Cities Research Network and think-tank on worldwide links between cities presents this fascinating overview on cities in geohistory. By moving cities to the centre stage, Peter Taylor proposes that concern for states tell only part of the macro-social story of humanity. Cities have been, and are, the engines of innovation. This impressive new book provides new insights into why cities succeed or fail. The book is in the class with broadminded presentations like Jared Diamonds book Guns, Germs and Steel. (Christian Matthiessen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark and President, International Geographical Unions Commission on Urban Geography). -- This is a "big book" by Peter Taylor. It tells of the extraordinary world-making powers of cities across the ages, it explains why a state-centric social science has constrained recognition of these powers over the last two centuries, and it outlines a new "indisciplinarity" to help us make sense of a human condition increasingly forged out of the urban. Anyone troubled by the social sciences as we know them, ought to read this book. (Ash Amin, Cambridge University, UK and author, Land of Strangers).

Global Urban Analysis provides a unique insight into the contemporary world economy through a focus on cities. It is based upon a large-scale customised data collection on how leading businesses use cities across the world: as headquarter locations, for finance, for professional and creative services, for media. These data - involving up to 2000 firms and over 500 cities - provide evidence for both how the leading cities, sometimes called global cities, are coming to dominate the world economy, and how hundreds of other cities are faring in this brave new urban world. Thus can the likes of Lon.

Contents -- Preface -- Prologue: Being Geohistorical -- Who's modern? -- Whose modern? -- 1 Modern, -ity, -ism, -ization -- Ambiguous to the core -- Social theory with smoke in its eyes -- Multiple moderns versus multiple modernities -- Modernizations of modernities -- 2 Prime Modernities -- World hegemony as uneven social change -- Three prime modernities -- Two modernizations of modernities -- Consensus and coercion in the projection of hegemonic power -- 3 Ordinary Modernity -- Cultural celebrations of ordinariness -- Feeling comfortable: the modern home -- Suburbia: the domestic landscape of consumer modernity -- Not modernism -- 4 Modern States -- Inter-stateness -- Absolutism as a political way of life -- Going Dutch -- The changing nature of territoriality -- 5 Political Movements -- Parties and movements -- Movements and modernities -- Socialism against the modernity that Britain created -- Environmentalism against the modernity that America created -- 6 Geographical Tensions -- Where and what? -- Place-space tensions -- Nation-state as enabling place and dis-enabling space -- Home-household as enabling place and dis-enabling space -- 7 Americanization -- Incipient, capacious and resonant Americanizations -- Inside America: conditions for constructing a modernity -- Outside America: seeing the most modern of the modern -- Americanization and globalization -- Epilogue: Presents and Ends -- System logic: the extraordinary effect of ordinary modernity -- Political practice: the post-traditional challenge -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z

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