Cities in a World EconomySAGE Publications, 11 avr. 2006 - 288 pages The Third Edition of Cities in a World Economy shows how certain characteristics of our turn-of-the-millennium 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. |
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The Urban Impact of Economic Globalization | 15 |
National and Transnational Urban Systems | 45 |
The Intersection | 81 |
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accounting areas Australia business centers capital central complex concentration cultural developed countries dispersal dynamic economic activity economic globalization electronic emergence employment Europe European Exhibit expansion export financial centers financial district financial markets firms Foreign Direct Investment Foreign Total Frankfurt gentrification geography global cities global economy global South growing number headquarters high-income Hong Kong household immigrant income increase increasingly industries inequality information economy infrastructure institutional Japan labor markets large number largest Latin America levels located London low-wage major cities manufacturing Miami migration million multiple Mumbai networks offshore banking operations organization Paris patterns Percentage political population primate cities processes producer services producer-services production real estate region role São Paulo Sassen sectors share social spatial specialized services strategic Sydney telecommunications tion Tokyo Toronto trade trafficking transactions Transnational Corporations trends types UNCTAD United Kingdom Urban Agglomerations urban economy women workers world economy worldwide York City Zurich