Cities in a world economy /
Sassen, Saskia,
Cities in a world economy / Saskia Sassen, Columbia University. - Fifth Edition. - Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications, c2019. - xxv, 413 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Revised edition of the author's Cities in a world economy, c2012.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Place and production in the global economy -- The urban impact of economic globalization -- National and transnational urban systems -- The new urban economy: the intersection of global processes and place -- Issues and case studies in the new urban economy -- The new inequalities within cities -- Global cities and global survival circuits -- The urbanizing of global governance challenges -- A new geography of centers and margins -- References and suggested reading -- Index -- About the author.
The book examines the emergence of global cities as a new social formation. As sites of rapid and widespread developments in the areas of finance, information and people, global cities lie at the core of the major processes of globalization. The book also features a cross-disciplinary approach to urban sociology using global examples and examines the impact of global processes on the social structure of cities. -- From the Publisher
9781506362618 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2017060768
Urban economics.
Metropolitan areas--Cross-cultural studies.
Cities and towns--Cross-cultural studies.
Sociology, Urban.
HT 321 / .Sa79 2019
Cities in a world economy / Saskia Sassen, Columbia University. - Fifth Edition. - Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications, c2019. - xxv, 413 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Revised edition of the author's Cities in a world economy, c2012.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Place and production in the global economy -- The urban impact of economic globalization -- National and transnational urban systems -- The new urban economy: the intersection of global processes and place -- Issues and case studies in the new urban economy -- The new inequalities within cities -- Global cities and global survival circuits -- The urbanizing of global governance challenges -- A new geography of centers and margins -- References and suggested reading -- Index -- About the author.
The book examines the emergence of global cities as a new social formation. As sites of rapid and widespread developments in the areas of finance, information and people, global cities lie at the core of the major processes of globalization. The book also features a cross-disciplinary approach to urban sociology using global examples and examines the impact of global processes on the social structure of cities. -- From the Publisher
9781506362618 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2017060768
Urban economics.
Metropolitan areas--Cross-cultural studies.
Cities and towns--Cross-cultural studies.
Sociology, Urban.
HT 321 / .Sa79 2019
