Foreword - Saskia Sassen
Introduction - Yudhishthir Raj Isar, Michael Hoelscher and Helmut K. Anheier
PART ONE: METROPOLITAN CULTURAL POLITICS, POLICIES AND GOVERNANCE
Overarching Issues
Cities as Geopolitical Spaces for the Global Governance of Culture - Katharine Sarikakis
Communication Networks, Cities and the Informal Economies - Ramon Lobato
Challenges of Governance in Multi-Ethnic Cities - Phil Wood
Cities and Universities: A Virtual Cultural Policy Nexus - Dragan Klaic
Cities, Culture and Sustainable Development - Nancy Duxbury, Catherine Cullen and Jordi Pascual
City Branding - Lily Kong
Competing Cities and Spectacularizing Urban Landscapes - Davide Ponzini
The Creative Cities Discourse: Production and/or Consumption? - Stuart Cunningham
The Creative City: Compelling and Contentious - Charles Landry
City Experiences
The Production of Culture: Abu Dhabi's Urban Strategies - Yasser Elsheshtawy
Amsterdam: A Multi-Cultural Capital of Culture - Simin Davoudi and Wil Zonneveld
Creative City, City Marketing, Creative Industries and Cultural Policy: Challenges for Antwerp - Annick Schramme and Katia Segers
'Creative Governance' in Berlin? - Janet Merkel
Brazzaville: A Global Village of African Culture - Patrice Yengo
Spectacularizing Fès - Justin McGuinness
Reshaping, Installing, Pioneering, Spearheading... Re-aalignment of Istanbul - Asu Aksoy and Kevin Robins
Johannesburg: Investing in Cultural Economies or Publics? - Edgar Pieterse and Kim Gurney
Rich but Divided ... the Politics of Cultural Policy in London - Kate Oakley
The Cultural Mapping of L'viv - Ihor Savchak and Linda Knudsen McAusland
MarseilleS-Provence 2013: Cultural Capital, but for What Kind of Europe and under Which Globalization? - Ferdinand Richard
Medellin: Tales of Fear and Hope - Octavio Arbeláez Tobón
Melbourne and Brisbane: The Claims of Suburbs - Terry Flew and Mark Gibson
Mexico City: Cultural Policies, Governance and Civil Society - Lucina Jiménez
Mumbai: Historic Preservation by Citizens - Abha Narain Lambah
New York City: City Culture as Public Display - David Halle and Louise Mirrer
Paris: A Process of Metropolitanization - Stephen W Sawyer and Mathias Rouet
São Paulo: Rich Culture, Poor Access - Maria Carolina Vasconcelos-Oliveira
Shanghai: Images of Modernity - Justin O'Connor and Xin Gu
Torino: A Change of Skin and More - Luca Dal Pozzolo
Vancouver: The Enigmatic Emerging Cultural Metropolis - Catherine Murray and Tom Hutton
Venice, Reloaded? A Tale of Urban Life (and Death) - Pier Luigi Sacco
Cultures and Cities: Some Policy Implications - Yudhishthir Raj Isar
Ethnographic Snapshots: Visions of Cities - Mieka Ritsema
PART TWO: INDICATOR SUITES
Cities, cultural policy and governance. ISBN 9781446258507. Published by SAGE in 2012. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.