Introduction to small cities : how to describe/define them? -- Small cities in a world of mega-cities -- What are the strengths and weaknesses of smaller cities? -- Is size important? -- Public policy and small cities in North America -- Public policies and small cities in the European Union --...

Introduction: Why Hong Kong? -- Reading Hong Kong in place and time -- Origins and growth, 1840s-1930s -- Transformations of Hong Kong, 1930-1970 -- Toward the twenty-first century: speed and paradox -- Hong Kong and its regional context -- Hong Kong and cities of East Asia -- Diasporic Hong Kong

Acknowledgements -- What is a market? -- Markets as metonyms of urban transformation : East London -- Markets and place-image : Rio de Janeiro -- Markets as unremarkable and remarkable places : Paris, Amsterdam, Hong Kong, Beijing -- Dis/placing markets through urban renewal : Sydney -- The...