Global Cities – serie
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Mumbai
Av Jen Green
Inbunden, 2007
351 kr
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The most globalized city in India, Mumbai is a world center for financial, manufacturing, and service industries. Within its boundaries are swamps, hills, national parks, and ancient monuments. The city's prolific film industry, known as Bollywood, produces more than 1,000 films a year. Mumbai is …
Berlin
Av Simon Garner
Inbunden, 2007
351 kr
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Berlin is the capital of Germany, the largest economy in Europe. Divided after World War II, the city was reunited in 1989, when the communist government of East Germany dissolved and the Berlin Wall was finally torn down. Since reunification the city has become the center of power in modern …
Los Angeles
Inbunden, 2007
351 kr
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Originally a small Spanish settlement, Los Angeles is the largest city on the west coast of the Americas and the second largest in the United States. Its dry, warm climate is comfortable year-round, but it also makes the city dependent on water brought in from hundreds of miles away. Los Angeles is …
Beijing
Inbunden, 2007
351 kr
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Beijing is the capital of China, the most populous country in the world - and a nation in flux. After half a century of strict communist rule, China relaxed its economic controls in the mid-1990s to allow growth. However, economic development has had mixed results for Beijing. An important …
Sydney
Av Paul Mason
Inbunden, 2007
382 kr
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Sydney is the largest city in Australia and the center of the country's economic activity. It has a comfortable climate, easy access to beaches, good public transportation, and a cosmopolitan and ethnically varied population with relatively few racial tensions. Because of these attractions, Sydney …
Istanbul
Av Rob Bowden
Inbunden, 2007
351 kr
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Occupying both sides of the Bosporus Strait, the important seaway that joins the Black Sea to the Mediterranean Sea, Istanbul is partly in Europe and partly in Asia. The strategic importance of its location has made the city one of the longest-inhabited areas in the world. It has a huge wealth of …
Global Cities Set
Inbunden, 2007
4490 kr
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The term global city, coined by American sociologist and economist Saskia Sassen in 1991, refers to international cities that impact the rest of the world politically, culturally, and/or socioeconomically. ""The Global Cities"" set directs students' attention to established world cities and newly …
