books.google.com - Cities such as New York, Tokyo, and London are the centres of transnational corporate headquarters, of international finance, transnational institutions, and telecommunications. They are the dominant loci in the contemporary world economy, and the influence of a relatively small number of cities within...http://books.google.com/books/about/World_Cities_in_a_World_System.html?id=QfsPuodL3xIC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareWorld Cities in a World-System
