The file contains background documentation and correspondence on potential partnership of the ESF/SCSS in a serie of international workshops such as: documentation on a series of international workshops on "Global cities and the dynamics of urban change" (including the discussion paper from the Social Science Research Council on the Future research initiative on global Cities); documentation on the Conferences "Tokyo/New York/Paris: nodes in the Global System" (Paris in 1991 and Tokyo in 1992) among others a paper "Toward a Collaborative Research Project on Key Urban Nodes in the Global System" by John Mollenkopf; Press cuttings, articles, background papers: "On Metropolitan Dominance: New York in the Urban Network" by Paul DiMaggio, "Living in the Global" by Ash Amin and Nigel Thrift.

It also contains documents about the ESF European Research conference 09-14/10/1993 and exploratory Workshop (14-16/10/1993) on "New Dynamics of Urban Processes in Europe Cities and Regions" held in Barcelona: correspondence, preliminary program, list of participants, call for papers, correspondence, Minutes of the workshop (handwritten), the paper "Globalisation and its impact on leading European Cities" by Peter Hall (with some comments by the participants).

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