Thinking through global cities / M. Mark Amen, Kevin Archer, and M. Martin Bosman -- In London's long shadow : Frankfurt in the European space of flows / Jonathan V. Beaverstock ... [et al.] -- Johannesburg 1986-2030 : a quest to regain world status / Keith S.O. Beavon -- Bangkok : intentional world city / Michael Douglass and Pornpan Boonchuen -- Laboring in the periphery : the place of Manila in the global economy / James A. Tyner -- Place-imaging Tampa in the age of globalization / M. Mark Amen and M. Martin Bosman -- Gentrification, globalization, and governance : the reterritorialization of Sydney's city-state / Scott Salmon -- Reluctant globalizers : the paradoxes of "glocal" development in Brussels / Erik Swyngedouw and Johan Moyersoen -- The processes underlying Caracas as a globalizing city / Miguel Lacabana and Cecilia Cariola -- Reconsidering the social structuration of globalization / M. Mark Amen, Kevin Archer, and M. Martin Bosman.