Cities in a World Economy

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SAGE Publications, 30 mai 2018 - 440 pages

Cities in a World Economy, Fifth Edition examines the emergence of global cities as a new social formation. As sites of rapid and widespread developments in the areas of finance, information and people, global cities lie at the core of the major processes of globalization. The book reflects the most current data available and explores recent debates such as the role of cities in mitigating environmental problems, the global refugee crisis, Brexit, and the rise of Donald Trump in the United States


 

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CHAPTER 1 PLACE AND PRODUCTION IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY
1
CHAPTER 2 THE URBAN IMPACT OF ECONOMIC GLOBALIZATION
13
CHAPTER 2 APPENDIX
44
CHAPTER 3 NATIONAL AND TRANSNATIONAL URBAN SYSTEMS
57
CHAPTER 3 APPENDIX
91
THE INTERSECTION OF GLOBAL PROCESSES AND PLACE
101
CHAPTER 4 APPENDIX
153
CHAPTER 5 ISSUES AND CASE STUDIES IN THE NEW URBAN ECONOMY
169
CHAPTER 6 THE NEW INEQUALITIES WITHIN CITIES
235
CHAPTER 7 GLOBAL CITIES AND GLOBAL SURVIVAL CIRCUITS
273
CHAPTER 7 APPENDIX
293
CHAPTER 8 THE URBANIZING OF GLOBAL GOVERNANCE CHALLENGES
295
CHAPTER 9 A NEW GEOGRAPHY OF CENTERS AND MARGINS
319
REFERENCES
325
INDEX
395
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
413

CHAPTER 5 APPENDIX
231

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Saskia Sassen is the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and co-chair of The Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University (www.saskiasassen.com). She is the author of Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages (2008), A Sociology of Globalization (2007), and The Global City (1991), and editor of Deciphering the Global: Its Spaces, Scales and Subjects (2007). Her books have been translated into 22 languages. She is the editor of the volume on urban sustainability in the new 14-volume Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (2006), for which she coordinated a network of researchers and activists in 30 countries.

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