Title:
Cities in a world economy
Author:
Sassen, Saskia.
ISBN:
9781412988032
Personal Author:
Edition:
4th ed.
Publication Information:
Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE/Pine Forge, ©2012.
Physical Description:
xxii, 399 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Series:
Sociology for a new century series
Sociology for a new century
General Note:
Previous ed.: 2006.
Formerly CIP.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Place and Production in the Global Economy -- ch. 2 The Urban Impact of Economic Globalization -- The Global Economy Today -- Strategic Places -- Conclusion: After the Pax Americana -- Notes -- ch. 2 Appendix -- ch. 3 National and Transnational Urban Systems -- Global Patterns of Urbanization -- Urbanization in Africa Today -- Urbanization in Asia Today -- 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 Immigration -- Global Cities and Diasporic Networks -- A Politics of Places on Global Circuits -- Conclusion: Urban Growth and Its Multiple Meanings -- Notes -- ch. 3 Appendix -- ch. 4 The New Urban Economy: The Intersection of Global Processes and Place -- From the Keynesian City to the Global City -- The Multiple Circuits of the Global Economy --
Contents note continued: The Specialized Differences of Cities Matter: There Is No Perfect Global City -- The Global City as a Postindustrial Production Site -- The Formation of a New Production Complex -- Corporate Headquarters and Cities -- An Emerging Global Labor Market -- Growing Segmentation in the Global Labor Market -- Conclusion: Cities as Postindustrial Production Sites -- Notes -- ch. 4 Appendix -- ch. 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 -- Competition or Specialized Differences: The Financial Centers of Hong Kong and Shanghai -- Making New Global Circuits in Energy and Finance: The Gulf States -- An Old Imperial City in Today's New East-West Geopolitics: Istanbul -- Globalization and Concentration: The Case of Leading Financial Centers --
Contents note continued: Why Do Financial Centers Still Exist in the Global Digital Era? -- In the Digital Era: More Concentration than Dispersal -- The Space Economy of Centrality -- Towards Novel Spatial Formats: Global Cities and Megaregions -- Notes -- ch. 5 Appendix -- ch. 6 The New Inequalities Within Cities -- Transformations in the Organization of the Labor Process -- The Informal Economy -- The Earnings Distribution in a Service-dominated Economy -- The Restructuring of Urban Consumption -- Conclusion: A Widening Gap -- Notes -- ch. 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 -- Alternative Survival Circuits -- Conclusion -- Notes -- ch. 7 Appendix -- ch. 8 The Urbanizing of Global Governance Challenges -- Cities as Frontier Spaces for Global Governance --
Contents note continued: Bridging the Ecologies of Cities and of the Biosphere -- When Finance Hits Urban Space -- When Pursuing National Security Is the Making of Urban Insecurity -- Notes -- ch. 9 A New Geography of Centers and Margins -- Summary and Implications.
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