Containing about one-eighth of the world's population but generating about one-third of the world's economic output, the report explores global city interconnectivity and, in the process, provides a clearer definition of what it means to be a global city - a term that is often thrown around but can be poorly understood. This book was previously published as a special issue of Urban Geography.The Brookings report, entitled Redefining Global Cities: The Seven Types Of Global Metro Economies, examined the economic functions of the 123 largest metro areas in the world. Although these two approaches are not the fanciest ones in today's urban geography, they are essential to the understanding of how urban areas are connected and what drives this interconnectedness in this age of globalization. They adopt and extend Jim Wheeler's corporate and/or hierarchical approaches to discuss institutional investment in the U.S., corporate interlocking directorates and fast-growing firms in Canada, corporate intangible assets in South Korea, urban development in Beijing and Macau, and social and cultural diversity of global cities such as New York. Wheeler's many contributions to urban geography, particularly in the areas of urban hierarchy, information flows, cities in the telecommunications age, and cities as corporate command and control centers. The eight papers are informed and inspired by James O. This book is a collection of selected papers presented in the 2012 annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers in New York honoring James O.
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