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Global–local interaction and its impact on cities

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This introduction paper to the special issue of Journal of Housing and the Built Environment explores the interrelations among ‘globalization, urban systems, and local development’ by focusing on global-local interactions and their impacts on cities. After tackling the idea that globalization is about the spread of capitalism and capitalist principles throughout the world, the paper introduces the questions that each article intends to answer. The issues addressed by these questions were grouped under four headings: global versus local forces and urban change; urban systems within the global network of cities; globalization and property markets; and governance of globalizing cities.

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Acknowledgments

We would like to thank NETHUR and URU for facilitating the International Seminar held on the 7th of October 2004. We are also grateful to the participants whose reflections and interactions during the seminar provided inspiration for the articles in this issue.

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  1. Department of Architecture, Urbanism and Planning (ASRO), Catholic University of Leuven, Kasteelpark Arenberg 51, 3001, Heverlee-Leuven, Belgium

    Tuna Taşan-Kok

  2. Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University, Postbus 80115, 3508 TC, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Jan van Weesep

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Taşan-Kok, T., van Weesep, J. Global–local interaction and its impact on cities. J Housing Built Environ 22, 1–11 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10901-006-9063-4

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