Eclipse of the City - Forbes.com

Eclipse of the City - Forbes.com: "Today this long dominance by global cities may be ending. Instead of clustering increasingly in 'world cities,' economic power is now declustering away from the primary urban centers to a host of smaller cities as well as to the sprawling suburban periphery.

Such a notion violates the thesis held by many academic analysts like Saskia Sassen who see core cities like New York, London and Tokyo as occupying 'new geographies of centrality' that provide 'the strategic sites for management of the global economy.' Behind these giants she identifies a secondary list of global centers, including Los Angeles, Chicago, Frankfurt, Toronto, Sydney, Paris, Miami and Hong Kong. "