Subject(s): Metropolitan areas. -- Globalization. -- Urbanization -- Historical world city networks -- Imperialism -- Political global cities -- Contemporary concepts -- Interlocking network models -- City cooperation and city competition -- Global city -- Spatial transformation -- Relational empirics -- Airline networks -- Internet networks of world cities -- Corporate networks of world cities -- World city analysis -- World city infrastructure : airports, Office markets and capital flows, international trade , mega events, cyber infrastructure -- World city economics : Highly skilled international labour migration, Spatial paradoxes of finance, Starchitecture, Global media, Gender in cities -- World city governance : Global city region governance, sustainability, urban Planning, Urban surveillance, infectious disease -- World city divisions : Urban social polarization, gentrifying the world city, private banking and wealth management, global workers, cultural diaspora, suburbanization -- World city case studies from China, Mexico,India, Accra, Asia, Holland,Brussels, Las Vegas, South Florida, Berlin and Warsaw, UAE, Sydney