Cities in a world economy. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Saskia Sassen.
• Authors: Sassen, Saskia
• Contents: Preface to the Fifth Edition; Preface to the Fourth Edition; Preface to the Third Edition; Preface to the Second Edition; Preface to the First Edition; List of Exhibits; Chapter 1. Place and Production in the Global Economy; Note; Chapter 2. The Urban Impact of Economic Globalization; The Global Economy Today; Strategic Places; Conclusion: After the Pax Americana; Notes; Chapter 2 Appendix; Chapter 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; Chapter 3 Appendix; Chapter 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; The Specialized Differences of Cities Matter: There Is No Perfect Global City; Urban/Rural Specificity Feeds the Knowledge Economy; The Global City as a Postindustrial Production Site; Producer Services; The Formation of a New Production Complex; Corporate Headquarters and Cities; An Emerging Global Labor Market; Conclusion: Cities as Postindustrial Production Sites; Notes; Chapter 4 Appendix; Chapter 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; Why Do Financial Centers Still Exist in the Global Digital Era?; In the Digital Era: More Concentration Than Dispersal; Conclusion: The Space Economy of Centrality; Notes; Chapter 5 Appendix; Chapter 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 Birth of Global Slums; The Restructuring of Urban Consumption; Conclusion: A Widening Gap; Notes; Chapter 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; Notes; Chapter 7 Appendix; Chapter 8. The Urbanizing of Global Governance Challenges; Cities as Frontier Spaces for Global Governance; 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; Chapter 9. A New Geography of Centers and Margins; Summary and Implications; The Locus of the Peripheral; Contested Space; References and Suggested Reading; Index; About the Author;
• Edition: Fifth edition
• Publisher Details: Los Angeles : SAGE
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 330.91732; Urban economics; Metropolitan areas -- Cross-cultural studies; Cities and towns -- Cross-cultural studies; Sociology, Urban
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781506362595
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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