This atlas offers a unique survey of global trade networks and their impact on metropolitan space. It documents a total of 101 metropolises, analysing them in easy-to-read ground plans. It also includes index numbers and tables regarding such aspects as population, density, pollution, travel time, data traffic, air and water travel and the size of Central Business Districts. Its unexpected combination of ground plans and statistics makes this atlas a unique work of reference where for the first time metropolitan areas like Beijing, Lagos, London, Los Angeles, Rio de Janeiro and Tokyo can be compared with one another and in terms of their position in the global urban network.

    For three days more 250 professionals from over 40 countries - architects, urban planners, engineers, scholars, representatives from business and governments - met in working groups and for panel sessions to discuss the challenges cities face today in respect to urban change."--Foreword (p. 10).

    The study also analyzes the business site location process in stages and shows what information sources corporate real estate professionals use, through which channel, during each step of the community selection process. The book looks at how marketing has changed from the past to the present and the direction it will move in the future. Economic Development Marketing: Present and Future addresses these marketing questions: 1. What is most effective? 2. Where should you invest your marketing dollars? 3. How are site selectors making decisions? 4. What does not work anymore? 5. What does the future look like? 6. What information really matters? 7. How can you be successful? Economic Development Marketing: Present and Future is essential reading for effective economic development directors, mayors, city managers, and state and local government professionals that want to get the greatest marketing return on investment.

    A significant percentage of buildings today-particularly in Western nations-are preserved through imposed guidelines. While there are myriad reasons why a building or site may warrant preservation, being deemed a landmark is one of the most powerful and complicated. Architecture's complicated relationship with wider social issues is laid bare through the process of landmarking, in which only one of six criteria-as outlined by the United States National Historic Landmarks program-mentions architectural merit. Furthermore, while structures were previously landmarked after having withstood the test of time, we now consider preserving comparatively young buildings and debate the historical value of unbuilt structures. By designating local, national, and international landmarks and landmark districts, societies officially declare which buildings and places possess cultural value. What are the bases for making these decisions, and what does this mean for the future? With many important buildings facing the wrecking ball and an increasing number of buildings receiving landmark status, it is time to critically discuss how we both let go of and hold onto the past.