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Introduction and Overview Part I: Intra-National Twin Cities 1. Minneapolis-St. Paul 2. ‘Too Near Neighbours to be Good Friends’: Political Conflicts in Manchester and Salford 3. ‘NewcastleGateshead’: A Dynamic Partnership 4. The Defence of Old Interests in a New City: Buda and Pest and Obuda in the Late-nineteenth century 5. Urban Lagos from 1927-67: A tale of two cities? 6. Twin Cities in African History: A Comparative Analysis of the 19th And 20th Century Capitals of Borno 7. Indian Twin Cities 8. Women’s Everyday Travel Experiences in Twin Cities of Islamabad and Rawalpindi, Pakistan 9. Hong Kong Shenzhen: twins, rivals, or heading towards one megacity? Part II: Border Twins 10. Leticia, Tabatinga and Santa Rosa: Rise, Transformation and Fusion of Pair and Triple Cities in the Amazon Border 11. US-Mexican Twin Cities:　 Economic, Health and Security as factors that bond Laredo and Nuevo Laredo on the Texas-Mexico border 12. Border-city pairs in Europe and North America: Spatial dimensions of integration and separation: the cases of Gubin/Guben and Ambos Nogales 13. The Structure of Space in the Two Divided Towns of the Danube Area 14: Central European Cross-border Cities: An Overview 15. Comines France/Comines Belgium and Wervik Belgium/Wervicq Sud France: Geopolitical & Ethnic Division of Twin Towns on the River Lys (Leie) 16. Border twin cities in the Baltic Area - Anomalies or Nexus of Mutual Benefit? 17. City Twinning as Local Foreign Policy: Kirkenes-Nikel 18. The Finnish-Russian border as a developmental resource: the Case of Imatra and Svetogorsk 19. The Impacts of town-twining on the communities of Imatra and Svetogorsk through different fields of cross-border cooperation 20. Blagoveshchensk (Russia) and Heihe (China): Invisible Trans-locality 21. Myawaddy-Mae Sot in Myanmar-Thailand borderland over three decades: a trans-border space created by (il)legal commodity and human flows Conclusion