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There will be three 'Globalization and World Cities' sessions [see Call for Papers] at the:
96th Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Tuesday, 4th April - Saturday 8th April, 2000
Organizers
Dr Jonathan Beaverstock (J.V.Beaverstock@lboro.ac.uk)1
Dr Richard Smith (rgs10@le.ac.uk)(Principal contact)2
Professor Peter Taylor (P.J.Taylor@lboro.ac.uk)1
1 Department of Geography, University of Loughborough, Leicestershire, England, LE11 3TU.
2 Department of Geography, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester, England, LE1 7RH.
Sponsor: AAG Urban Geography Specialty Group
GLOBALIZATION AND WORLD CITIES, SESSION I
Chair: Richard Smith (University of Leicester) & Jon Beaverstock (Loughborough University)
Richard Smith (University of Leicester), Jon Beaverstock & Peter Taylor (Loughborough University): "World city network: A new metageography?"
Erik Swyngedouw & Guy Baeten (University of Oxford): "Dancing with titans and dwarfs: elite power, global forces and the political economy of 'glocal' development: Brussel's conundrum"
Scott Campbell (University of Michigan): "The changing role and identity of capital cities in the global era"
GLOBALIZATION AND WORLD CITIES, SESSION II
Chair: Richard Smith (University of Leicester) & Jon Beaverstock (Loughborough University)
Jenny Robinson (Open University): "Beyond global, world and mega-cities: development and the case for ordinary cities"
Maliq Simone (University of Witwatersrand): "On the 'worlding' of cities in Africa"
Kris Olds & Henry Wai-Chung Yeung (National University of Singapore): "Global cities and developmental states: incompatible perspectives or long lost siblings?"
Mike Crang (University of Durham): "Riding the dragon: Singapore's intelligent island"
GLOBALIZATION AND WORLD CITIES, SESSION III
Chair: Richard Smith (University of Leicester) & Jon Beaverstock (Loughborough University)
Jane Pollard, John Bryson, Nick Henry & Cheryl McEwan (Birmingham University): "Globalisation from below: 'Birmingham - postcolonial workshop of the world'"
Michael Samers (University of Liverpool): "Global cities, immigrants, and political participation"
Farhang Rouhani (University of Arizona): "Global media technologies, everyday life, and the changing role of Tehran as a world city"
Niall Majuri (University of Leeds): "Building on the sands of finance: world cities and the spatial dynamics of investment banking"
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