Cities in a world economy

Author(s)

• Sassen, Saskia

Bibliographic Information

Cities in a world economy

Saskia Sassen

（Sociology for a new century）

Pine Forge Press, c2006

3rd ed

• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-244) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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.

Table of Contents

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

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Details

• NCID: BA77124021
• ISBN:
  • 9781412936804
• LCCN: 2005034084
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Thousand Oaks
• Pages/Volumes: xviii, 269 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : HT321
  • DC20 : 330.9173/2
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Urban economics
  • LCSH : Metropolitan areas -- Cross-cultural studies
  • LCSH : Cities and towns -- Cross-cultural studies
  • LCSH : Sociology, Urban
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA2249257X