In Global Cities, scholars from an impressive array of disciplines critique the growing body of literature on the process broadly known as "globalization." This interdisciplinary focus enables the authors to explore the complex geographies of modern cities, and offer possible strategies for reclaiming a sense of place and community in these globalized urban settings. While examining major cities including New York, Tokyo, Berlin, Paris, and Hong Kong, contributors insist that the study of urban experiences must remain as attentive to the material effects as to the psychic and social consequences of globalization. 

Reading the city in a global digital age: between topographic representation and spatialized power projects / Saskia Sassen
Collective memory and locality in global cities / Jennifer Jordan
Gobbled up and gone: cultural preservation and the global city marketplace / Tasha G. Oren
Los toquis, or urban babel / Natas¿a D¿urovic¿ovä
Too close to home: Naruse Mikio and Japanese cinema of the 1950s / Catherine Russell
Authenticity and globalization / John B. Hertz
Global cannibal city machines: recent visions of urban/social space / Peter Sands
Cinema, the city, and the cinematic / Ackbar Abbas
Codes, collectives, and commodities: rethinking global cities as metalogistical spaces / Timothy W. Luke
Some thoughts on cities: visions and plans / Jorge Annibal-Iribarne
Architecture and memory / Jo Noero

 Linda Krause is an associate professor in the Department of Architecture at the School of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.

Patrice Petro is professor of film studies and director of the Center for International Education at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.