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It remains axiomatic that New York City is both the premier American metropolis and a world-class city as well. Indeed, its advanced position has led American scholars to see it as unique, rather than typical, especially in regard to its problems. This tendency has been heightened by the changes and transformations that this metropolis is undergoing, and has undergone since the Second World War. These changes are fundamental and structural and are altering the fabric of urban and metropolitan life there (and I would suggest in other American and even some European cities) as well. Further, and more importantly for this discussion, some of these changes parallel developments in a number of Third World cities.
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Paris, A.E. (1990). New York as a Third World City. In: Mulvey, C., Simons, J. (eds) New York. Insights. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20910-1_11
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