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Cities in a World Economy - Saskia Sassen

Cities in a World Economy

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Buch | Softcover
288 Seiten
2006 | 3rd Revised edition
SAGE Publications Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4129-3680-4 (ISBN)
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Presents sociologists with a fresh perspective on the study of urban sociology. In a world economy that is global, this book addresses the need to account for the global economies' influence on the social structures of cities.
The Third Edition of the international bestselling Cities in a World Economy presents sociologists with a new perspective on the study of urban sociology. The decentralization and privatization of the world′s economies has radically altered such things as the organization of labour, the structure of consumption and the distribution of earnings in ways that have yet to be fully realized. In a world economy that is truly more global than it has ever been, Saskia Sassen addresses the need to account for the global economies increasing influence on the social structures of cities.

Saskia Sassen is the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and co-chair of The Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University (www.saskiasassen.com). She is the author of Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages (2008), A Sociology of Globalization (2007), and The Global City (1991), and editor of Deciphering the Global: Its Spaces, Scales and Subjects (2007). Her books have been translated into 22 languages. She is the editor of the volume on urban sustainability in the new 14-volume Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (2006), for which she coordinated a network of researchers and activists in 30 countries.

List of Exhibits
About the Author
Foreword
Preface to the Third Edition
Preface to the Second Edition
Preface to the First Edition
1. Place and Production in the Global Economy
2. The Urban Impact of Economic Globalization
The Global Economy Today
Strategic Places
Conclusion: After the Pax Americana
3. National and Transnational Urban Systems
Impacts on Primate Systems: The Case of Latin America and the Caribbean
Impacts on Balanced Urban Systems: The Case of Europe
Transnational Urban Systems
Global Cities and Diasporic Networks
Conclusion: Urban Growth and Its Multiple Meanings
4. The New Urban Economy: The Intersection of Global Processes and Place
Producer Services
The Formation of a New Production Complex
Impact of the Late 1980s Financial Crisis on Global City Functions: The Case of New York City
Conclusion: Cities as Postindustrial Production Sites
5. Issues and Case Studies in the New Urban Economy
The Development of Global City Functions: The Case of Miami
The Growing Density and Specialization of Functions in Financial Districts: Toronto
The Concentration of Functions and Geographic Scale: Sydney
Globalization and Concentration: The Case of Leading Financial Centers
Why Do We Need Financial Centers in the Global Digital Era?
The Space Economy of the Center
Conclusion: Concentration and the Redefinition of the Center
6. The New Inequalities within Cities
Transformations in the Organization of the Labor Process
The Earnings Distribution in a Service-Dominated Economy
Conclusion: A Widening Gap
7. Global Cities and Global Survival Circuits
Women in the Global Economy
Localizing the Global
The Other Workers in the Advanced Corporate Economy
Producing a Global Supply of the New Caretakers: The Feminization of Survival
Conclusion
8. A New Geography of Centers and Margins: Summary and Implications
The Locus of the Peripheral
Contested Space
Appendix
References
Glossary/Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag 23.5.2006
Reihe/Serie Sociology for a New Century Series
Verlagsort Thousand Oaks
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 228 mm
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-4129-3680-2 / 1412936802
ISBN-13 978-1-4129-3680-4 / 9781412936804
Zustand Neuware
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