In the 1980s and 1990s, a series of publications, including Saskia Sassen's landmark book
The Global City, triggered a new current of research aiming to link a cycle of globalized …

We place labor flows, involving both highly skilled professionals and unskilled workers,
within the framework of research on world cities. These flows are central to understanding …

Reflecting a broadening interest in finding new ways to talk about contemporary social
complexity, the concept of 'super-diversity'has received considerable attention since it was …

This paper develops new data on mega-regions. It takes issue with theories of globalization
which argue that global economic activity is being more widely decentralized—'the world is …

The Connected City explores how thinking about networks helps make sense of modern
cities: what they are, how they work, and where they are headed. Cities and urban life can …

Yasser Elsheshtawy explores Dubai's history from its beginnings as a small fishing village to
its place on the world stage today, using historical narratives, travel descriptions, novels and …

Twenty-first century metropolises are often engaged in a rivalry for primacy in many different
geographical scales. Dubai, a relatively new urban settlement, is not immune from such …

Two unconnected but important recent academic and policy debates have focussed on the
idea of the knowledge-based economy and the economic consequences of increasing …

Superdiversity explores processes of diversification and the complex, emergent social
configurations that now supersede prior forms of diversity in societies around the world …

The study of migration within geography takes a variety of forms. While geographers
traditionally studied push and pull factors in migration, this approach was challenged for its …