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| | GaWC Research Bulletin 49 |
 | | Her analysis is framed around the contention that contemporary discussions of world cities, postfordism and globalization have radically exaggerated the historical uniqueness of contemporary urban transformations, which can be understood more adequately, she argues, in the context of many centuries of interaction between world-scale economic processes and changing localized economic, social and political conditions. |
 | | Although the analysis of each of these phases is focused, most essentially, upon transformations at the local scale (which itself quickly expanded onto the regional or metropolitan scale as each city's population grew), Abu-Lughod expertly weaves accounts of shifts at other scales-especially the national and the global-into her historical analysis of each city. |
 | | Her analysis of each phase of development within the three cities explores a remarkably broad constellation of technological, infrastructural, social, political, economic and geographical transformations, from the initial socio-geographical conditions within which each city was first established to its subsequent evolution, expansion and continual transformation through diverse economic, demographic and political influences. |
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