North American municipalities and their involvement in the global economy / Determinants of urban competitiveness: a survey / Cities and citizens in flux: global consumer integration and local civic fragmentation / Globalization and wage polarization in U.S. and Canadian cities: does public policy make a differene? / Globalizing economies and cities: a view from Mexico / Local responses to globalization and regional economic integration

World cities in the making: the European context / Determinants of the growth and decline of cities in North America / Planning a U.S.-Mexican bi-national metropolis: El Paso, Texas-Ciudad Juʹarez, Chihuahua / Achieving sustainability in Cascadia: an emerging model of urban growth management in the Vancouver-Seattle-Portland Corridor / Developing global cities in the Pacific Northwest: the cases of Vancouver and Seattle