Varieties of Capital CitiesThe political and symbolic centrality of capital cities has been challenged by increasing economic globalization. This is especially true of secondary capital cities; capital cities which, while being the seat of national political power, are not the primary economic city of their nation state. David Kaufmann examines the unique challenges that these cities face entering globalised, inter-urban competition while not possessing a competitive political economy. |
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| 1981 | |
an interdisciplinary | 1998 |
The cases under scrutiny | |
the fragmented city | |
the international government city | |
the capital of the free world | |
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