We use a new historical dataset to explore the contention of a century's worth of scholarship that a state's largest city faces discrimination in its legislature. Looking at thirteen states over a 120-year period, we show that this charge is justified: Bills introduced by members of the big city...

Access to urban infrastructure, in cities of the developing world is deficient in both coverage and access. Despite the efforts of numerous international, national, provincial and urban agents, these deficiencies persist. In response, recent international and national strategies seek to use...

Cities and city regions are growing throughout the world and this trend is forecast to continue well into the 21st century. The authors of The Rise of the City see the next 100 years as being the "Urban Century". In this book they examine urban growth and the dynamics that are transforming the...

Beginning with the recent history of capitalism and urbanization and moving into a thorough and complex discussion of the modern city, this book outlines the dynamics of what the author calls the third wave of urbanization, characterized by global capitalism's increasing turn to forms of...

Contents: Prologue: The global city: enabling economic intermediation and bearing its costs / Saskia Sassen -- 1. Agency and practice in the making of global cities: towards a renewed research agenda / Michael Hoyler, Christof Parnreiter and Allan Watson -- 2. Producer service firms as global...

Unter Rückgriff auf die Gouvernementalitätstheorie von Foucault sowie die Hegemonietheorie von Laclau und Mouffe analysiert dieses Buch die derzeit ablaufenden, oft als »neoliberal« bezeichneten Umbrüche in der Stadtentwicklung. Als empirischer Gegenstand dient das Stadtmarketing, anhand...