Includes bibliographical references (p. [276]-301) and index.

Introduction / Peter Marcuse and Ronald van Kempen. -- The unavoidable continuities of the city / Robert A. Beauregard and Anne Haila. -- From the metropolis to globalization: the dialectics of race and urban form / William W. Goldsmith. -- From colonial city to globalizing city?: the far-from-complete spatial transformation of Calcutta / Sanjoy Chakravorty. -- Rio de Janeiro: emerging dualization in a historically unequal city / Luiz Cesar de Queiroz Ribeiro and Edward E. Telles. -- Singapore: the changing residential landscape in a winner city / Leo van Grunsven. -- Tokyo: patterns of familiarity and partitions of difference/ Paul Waley. -- Still a global city: the racial and ethnic segmentation of New York / John R. Logan. -- Brussels: post-fordist polarization in a fordist spatial canvas / Christian Kesteloot. -- The imprint of the post-fordist transition on Australian cities / Blair Badcock. -- The globalization of Frankfurt am Main: core, periphery and social conflict / Roger Keil and Klaus Ronneberger. -- Conclusion: a changed spatial order / Peter Marcuse and Ronald van Kempen.