TY - JOUR
AU - Boey, Marc
AB -  (Trans)national Realities and Imaginations: The Business and Politics of Malaysia’s Multimedia Super Corridor 1 M arc B oey Department of City and Regional Planning Cornell University Of Intercity Competition, Global City Formations and “Intelligent Corridors” Although the nature and extent of globalization is widely contested in pol- icy and academic debates, one phenomenon almost all sides agree with is the mounting intensity of intercity competition in the contemporary round of global economic restructuring. Cities and regions are increasingly com- peting with one other to attract the attention of venture capitalists and transnational corporations that traverse the globe, seeking the best sites for their investments. Politicians and business analysts are quick to caution against the perils of failing to “hold down” (Amin and Thrift, 1994) these global economic  ows. Failure in intercity rivalry, they warn, would mean relegation to the margins of the global economy. Improved urban com- petitiveness is consequently exhorted as the “path to economic nirvana” (Begg, 1999:795), if not economic survival. To remain e V ective in this new economic regime, many policymakers are engaging their primary urban centres in a process that is now commonly referred to as world or global city formation (Sassen, 
TI - (Trans)national Realities and Imaginations: The Business and Politics of Malaysia's Multimedia Super Corridor
JO - Asian Journal of Social Science
DO - 10.1163/15685310260188727
DA - 2002-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/brill/trans-national-realities-and-imaginations-the-business-and-politics-of-cB5xHQomJ3
SP - 28
EP - 52
VL - 30
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -