North American Cities and the Global Economy

Introduction - Wilbur R Thompson Urban Economics in the Global Age PART ONE: NORTH AMERICAN CITIES AND THE GLOBAL ECONOMY: AN OVERVIEW OF THE MAJOR ISSUES North American Municipalities and Their Involvement in the Global Economy - Earl H Fry The Determinants of Urban Competitiveness - Peter Karl Kresl A Survey Cities and Citizens in Flux - John Kincaid Global Consumer Integration and Local Civic Fragmentation PART TWO: THE ROLE OF INTERNATIONAL1IZATION IN REVITALIZING NORTH AMERICAN MUNICIPALITIES Globalization and Wage Polarization in US and Canadian Cities - Marc V Levine Does Public Policy Make a Difference? Globalizing Economies and Cities - Daniel Hiernaux A View from Mexico PART THREE: MUNICIPAL NETWORKING AND INTERGOVERNMENTAL COOPERATION Local Responses to Globalization and Regional Economic Integration - Norris C Clement World Cities in the Making - Arie Shachar The European Context Determinants of the Growth and Decline of Cities in North America - Pierre-Paul Proulx PART FOUR: CASE STUDIES OF NORTH AMERICAN MUNICIPALITIES Planning a US-Mexico Binational Metropolis - Samuel Schmidt El Paso, Texas-Ciudad Ju[a]arez, Chihuahua Achieving Sustainability in Cascadia - Alan F J Artibise An Emerging Model of Urban Growth Management in the Vancouver-Seattle-Portland Corridor Developing Global Cities in the Pacific Northwest - Theodore H Cohn and Patrick J Smith The Cases of Vancouver and Seattle Conclusion and Epilogue - Gary Gappert The Future of Cities and Their Policies in the Global Economy A Select Bibliography on Cities and Globalization - Paul Gregory