Perspectives on Urban Economic Planning: The Case of Washington, D.C., Since 1880

Abbott, Carl

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“…The Washington Post supported the new world-city image with stories on the city's cosmopolitan character -foreign real estate investment, foreign residents, and even the number of Washingtonians holding passports -twice the proportion in Detroit or Dallas. 53 The same factors that worked to make Washington a national business and information centre presumably operated as well on the global scale. The Board of Trade's 1987 promotional brochure argued that Washington is the place to be for companies engaged in world markets.…”

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International cities in the dual systems model: the transformations of Los Angeles and Washington

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1991

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The popularization of ‘World City’ as an analytical concept dates to 1966. Taking up a term introduced fifty years earlier by Patrick Geddes, Peter Hall's now classic description ofThe World Citiesexplored the evolution of a handful of key urban areas from national into global roles and functions. The original emphasis on size and comprehensive economic functins has since been extended by the argument that a distinct class of global cities are a characteristic product of the technologies and economy of the late twentieth century. As well, such cities are thought to embrace common spatial forms that respond to a specific balance of centralizing and decentralizing tendencies in the location of commercial, financial, and manufacturing industries.

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Section: The Transformations Of Los Angeles and Washington 51mentioning

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