In this brilliant, very original survey of the politics and meanings of urban landscapes, leading sociologist G¿ran Therborn offers a tour of the world's major capital cities, and the forces that have shaped them. Through a global, historical lens, and with a thematic range extending from the mutati...

This is a global overview of power in major capital cities, analyzed from different angles by a set of urban scholars of world renown.

This book was published as a special issue of the International Journal of Urban Sciences.