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Introduction: Cities and crisis: challenges for urban theory / Kuniko Fujita -- 'Global cities', world power, and the G20 capital cities / Göran Therborn -- Was the US sub-prime crisis the prime mover? The limits of the 'critical urbanist' interpretation of the UK financial crisis / Chris Pickvance -- After Wall Street? New York's green economy imaginaries / Michael Indergaard -- World capitals of capital, cities and varieties of finance systems: internationally versus regionally oriented banking / Stefan Gärtner -- Seeing New York City's financial crisis in the vernacular landscape / Jerome Krase and Timothy Shortell -- Ports in the global urban hierarchy / Alex Hicks and Ryan Hicks -- Athens and the politics of the sovereign debt crisis / Nicos Souliotis -- Globalization and urban insecurity: comparative perspectives / Sophie Body-Gendrot -- Financial crises and spatial income inequality: the case of Tokyo / Kuniko Fujita.