Cities in a World Economy

by Saskia Sassen

• ISBN13: 9781412988032
• ISBN10: 1412988039
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-08-31
• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc

Summary

The Fourth Edition of Cities in a World Economy shows how certain characteristics of flows of money, information, and people have led to the emergence of a new social formation: global cities. These developments give new meaning to such fixtures of urban sociology as the centrality of place and the importance of geography in our social world.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Fourth Edition	p. ix
Preface to the Third Edition	p. xi
Preface to the Second Edition	p. xiii
Preface to the First Edition	p. xv
List of Exhibits	p. xvii
Place and Production in the Global Economy	p. 1
The Urban Impact of Economic Globalization	p. 15
The Global Economy Today	p. 17
Strategic Places	p. 32
Conclusion: After the Pax Americana	p. 42
Notes	p. 43
Appendix	p. 44
National and Transnational Urban Systems	p. 58
Global Patterns of Urbanization	p. 59
Urbanization in Africa Today	p. 65
Urbanization in Asia Today	p. 66
Impacts on Primate Systems: The Case of Latin America and the Caribbean	p. 67
Impacts on Balanced Urban Systems: The Case of Europe	p. 70
Transnational Urban Systems	p. 78
Global Cities and Immigration	p. 84
Global Cities and Diasporic Networks	p. 86
A Politics of Places on Global Circuits	p. 89
Conclusion: Urban Growth and Its Multiple Meanings	p. 91
Notes	p. 93
Appendix	p. 95
The New Urban Economy: The Intersection of Global Processes and Place	p. 109
From the Keynesian City to the Global City	p. 110
The Multiple Circuits of the Global Economy	p. 111
The Specialized Differences of Cities Matter: There Is No Perfect Global City	p. 114
The Global City as a Postindustrial Production Site	p. 127
The Formation of a New Production Complex	p. 137
Corporate Headquarters and Cities	p. 140
An Emerging Global Labor Market	p. 143
Growing Segmentation in the Global Labor Market	p. 147
Conclusion: Cities as Postindustrial Production Sites	p. 155
Notes	p. 156
Appendix	p. 157
Issues and Case Studies in the New Urban Economy	p. 179
The Development of Global City Functions: The Case of Miami	p. 181
The Growing Density and Specialization of Functions in Financial Districts: Toronto	p. 189
The Concentration of Functions and Geographic Scale: Sydney	p. 193
Competition or Specialized Differences: The Financial Centers of Hong Kong and Shanghai	p. 198
Making New Global Circuits in Energy and Finance: The Gulf States	p. 201
An Old Imperial City in Today's New East-West Geopolitics: Istanbul	p. 202
Globalization and Concentration: The Case of Leading Financial Centers	p. 212
Why Do Financial Centers Still Exist in the Global Digital Era?	p. 216
In the Digital Era: More Concentration than Dispersal	p. 219
The Space Economy of Centrality	p. 228
Towards Novel Spatial Formats: Global Cities and Megaregions	p. 231
Notes	p. 235
Appendix	p. 236
The New Inequalities Within Cities	p. 241
Transformations in the Organization of the Labor Process	p. 242
The Informal Economy	p. 258
The Earnings Distribution in a Service-dominated Economy	p. 259
The Restructuring of Urban Consumption	p. 268
Conclusion: A Widening Gap	p. 270
Notes	p. 272
Global Cities and Global Survival Circuits	p. 273
Women in the Global Economy	p. 274
Localizing the Global	p. 276
The Other Workers in the Advanced Corporate Economy	p. 279
Producing a Global Supply of the New Caretakers: The Feminization of Survival	p. 282
Alternative Survival Circuits	p. 286
Conclusion	p. 291
Notes	p. 293
Appendix	p. 295
The Urbanizing of Global Governance Challenges	p. 297
Cities as Frontier Spaces for Global Governance	p. 298
Bridging the Ecologies of Cities and of the Biosphere	p. 299
When Finance Hits Urban Space	p. 308
When Pursuing National Security Is the Making of Urban Insecurity	p. 318
Notes	p. 321
A New Geography of Centers and Margins	p. 323
Summary and Implications	p. 323
References and Suggested Reading	p. 330
Index	p. 380
About the Author	p. 399
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