Acknowledgments -- The transnationality of cities : concepts, dimensions and research fields: an introduction / Stefan Krätke, Kathrin Wildner, and Stephan Lanz -- Transnationality and the city / Nina Glick-Schiller -- Cities of the global south in the context of transnational urbanism and international development policies / Hans Harms -- Transnational planning : reconfiguring spaces and institutions / Clara Irazábal -- Conceptualizing transnational urban spaces : multicentered agency, placeless organizational logics, and the built environment / Christof Parnreiter -- Materializing the digital commodity : recording studios in transnational project networks of digital musical production / Michael Hoyler and Allan Watson -- Global capitalism and the informal economy : a methodological approach to the complex incorporation of Mexican cities into the globalized markets / Sandra Alarcón -- The return of the local? : anglicization, transnationalism and religion in the global city / John Eade -- Small town transnationalism : socio-spatial dynamics of immigration to the heartland / Faranak Miraftab -- Challenging heteronomous power in a globalized world : insurgent spatial practices, "militant particularism", and multiscalarity / Marcelo Lopes de Souza -- Move from and not on the occult zone (where the people dwell) : -- An argument for the political priority of solidarity with popular (and largely situated) mobilization by the poor over transnational organization by civil society / Richard Pithouse -- Contributors -- Index.