Subject(s): Planning And Development -- World Cities -- Urban Governance -- City planning -- Urban policy -- Metropolitan areas -- Globalization -- Global transformation and city -- Global politics -- Regionalism and national sovereignty -- Cities in North America: rediscovering down town, regionalism and devolution -- NAFTA -- New York: capital of the world -- Governance of planning and development -- Challenges to New York's world city dominance: Toronto, Mexico city, Chicago or Los Angeles -- Multuicultural city -- European integration and competitive city regions -- London: from fragmentation to world city promotion -- Europe's world city contenders: Paris,Berlin, Frankfurt and Barcelona -- Pacific Asia: economic interdependence and the developmental state -- Economical crisis -- Tokyo: shaping a world city in the face of economic turbulence -- Hong Kong, Shanghai and Singapore : a battle for regional dominance - mega-projects and state-led visions -- Planning world cities