1st Edition
Hierarchy, Information and Power Cities as Corporate Command and Control Centers
1. Hierarchy, information, and power: cities as corporate command and control centers.
Hongmian Gong
2. The economic geography of institutional investment in the United States, 2010
Milford Green, Sean O’Hagan and Martin Lefebvre
3. The geography of Canadian interlocking directorates: how do they relate to brain circulation?
Sean B. O’Hagan and Murray D. Rice
4. Fast-growing firms as elements of change in Canada’s headquarters city system
Murray D. Rice, Donald I. Lyons and Sean B. O’Hagan
5. Interaction of corporate and urban systems: accumulation of intangible assets
Sam Ock Park
6. Macau’s role as a recreation/tourist center in the Pearl River Delta city-region
Clifton W. Pannell and Philip H. Loughlin
7. Planning Beijing: socialist city, transitional city, and global city
Chaolin Gu, Yehua Dennis Wei and Ian G. Cook
8. Global cities, cosmopolitanism, and geographies of tolerance
Barney Warf
9. A method for delineating a hierarchically networked structure of urban landscape
Yichun Xie and Ting Ma
Biography
Hongmian Gong is a Professor of Geography at Hunter College and Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Her research interests are urban service economies in the U.S. and China and GIS/GPS/mobile phone applications in urban transportation.
