Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- I. WHY CITIES SHOULD GOVERN GLOBALLY -- CHAPTER 1. IF MAYORS RULED THE WORLD: Why They Should and How They Already Do -- Profile 1. Mayor of the World: MICHAEL BLOOMBERG OF NEW YORK -- CHAPTER 2. THE LAND OF LOST CONTENT: Virtue and Vice in the Life of the City -- Profile 2. The Incorruptible as Artist: LEOLUCA ORLANDO OF PALERMO -- CHAPTER 3. THE CITY AND DEMOCRACY: From Independent Polis to Interdependent Cosmopolis -- Profile 3. The Efficient Jester: BORIS JOHNSON OF LONDON -- CHAPTER 4. MAYORS RULE!: Is This What Democracy Looks Like? -- Profile 4. Governing in Partnership: WOLFGANG SCHUSTER OF STUTTGART -- CHAPTER 5. INTERDEPENDENT CITIES: Local Nodes and Global Synapses -- Profile 5. The Founder as President and the President as Mayor: LEE KUAN YEW AND TONY TAN OF THE CITY-STATE OF SINGAPORE -- CHAPTER 6. CITIES WITHOUT SOVEREIGNTY: The Uses of Powerlessness -- Profile 6. The (Not Quite) Indestructible: YURY LUZHKOV OF MOSCOW -- II. HOW IT CAN BE DONE -- CHAPTER 7. "PLANET OF SLUMS": The Challenge of Urban Inequality -- Profile 7. Megacity Headaches: AYODELE ADEWALE OF LAGOS -- CHAPTER 8. CITY, CURE THYSELF!: Mitigating Inequality -- Profile 8. Her Honor the Mayor: SHEILA DIKSHIT OF DELHI -- CHAPTER 9. SMART CITIES IN A VIRTUAL WORLD: Linking Cities with Digital Technology -- Profile 9. The Peacemakers: TEDDY KOLLEK OF JERUSALEM AND QADOURA MOUSSA OF JENIN -- CHAPTER 10. CULTURAL CITIES IN A MULTICULTURAL WORLD: The Arts of Interdependence -- Profile 10. Civic Comedy and the Art of Citizenship: ANTANAS MOCKUS OF BOGOTÁ -- CHAPTER 11. CITIZENS WITHOUT BORDERS: Glocal Civil Society and Confederalism -- Profile 11. The Glocal Community Organizer: PARK WON-SOON OF SEOUL -- CHAPTER 12. A GLOBAL PARLIAMENT OF MAYORS: Bottom-up Democracy and the Road to Interdependence -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D.

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