Global City Typologies explores the historical, cultural, and socio-economic transactional forces in the development of existing cities through to newly planned and emerging cities. Individual chapters address different sets and typologies of global cities to analyse their comparative evolution and standing today.

PART I - INTRODUCTION and URBAN THEORY

PART II – ESTABLISHED HISTORIC CITIES

2.0 Introduction – Historic Cities

2.1 Imperial Cities

2.2 Theistic Cities

2.3 Former Capital Cities

2.4 Historic European Capital Cities

2.5 Academic and Ecclesiastic European Cities

PART III – EARLY TRADING CITIES

3.0 Introduction – Early Trading Cities

3.1 Mercantile Port Cities

3.2 Lowland, Hanseatic, Baltic, and Scandinavian Port Cities

3.3 Maritime Cities

3.4 Island Cities

3.5 Mountain Cities

PART IV – PLANNED CITIES

4.0 Introduction – Planned Cities

4.1 Former Soviet and Eastern European Cities

4.2 Divided Cities

4.3 Industrial & De-industrialised Cities

4.4 Modern American Cities

4.5 New Capital Cities

PART V – EMERGING GLOBAL CITIES

5.0 Introduction – Emerging Global Cities

5.1 Innovative Cities

5.2 Trans-National Global Cities

5.3 Mega African Cities

5.4 Mega South American Cities

5.5 Mega Asian Cities

PART VI – MEGALOPOLITAN AGGLOMERATIONS

6.0 Megalopolitan Agglomerations

6.1 Megalopolitan Europe

6.2 Megalopolitan Americas

6.3 Megalopolitan Japan

6.4 Megalopolitan India

6.5 Megalopolitan China

PART VII – SUMMARY

7.0 Synopsis

Bibliography & Further Reading