Globalization and Its Discontents
by Saskia Sassen
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In her pioneering book The Global City, Saskia Sassen argued that certain cities in the post-industrial world have become central nodes in the new service economy, strategic sites for the acceleration of capital and information flows as well as spaces of increasing socio-economic polarization. One effect has been that such cities have gained in importance and power relative to nation-states. In this new collection of essays, Sassen and a distinguished group of contributors expand on the show more author's earlier work in a number of important ways, focusing on two key issues. First, they look at how information flows have bound global cities together in networks, creating a global city web whose constituent cities become "global" through the networks they participate in. Second, they investigate emerging global cities in the developing world - Sao Paulo, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Mexico City, Beirut, the Dubai - Iran corridor, and Buenos Aires. They show how these globalizing zones are not only replicating many features of the top tier of global cities, but are also generating new socio-economic patterns as well. show lessTags
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Some interesting ideas regarding the place of global cities within globalization; however, I felt that the book became quite repetitive halfway through. I feel as though you could read the first couple of chapters to get the main ideas and not miss much by skipping the rest.
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Saskia Sassen is professor of sociology and a member of the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University, and Centennial Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is the author of The Global City (Princeton) and Globalization and Its Discontents, and coeditor of Digital Formations (Princeton). She has show more written for the New York Times, Financial Times, and International Herald Tribune show less
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- Economics, Nonfiction, Sociology, General Nonfiction, Politics and Government
- DDC/MDS
- 337 — Society, government, & culture Economics International economics
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- HT321 .G55 — Social sciences Communities. Classes. Races Communities. Classes. Races Urban groups. The city. Urban sociology The city as an economic factor. City
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