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Author : Saskia Sassen
Release : 2000-02-15
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Synopsis Cities in a World Economy by : Saskia Sassen
Download or read book Cities in a World Economy written by Saskia Sassen. This book was released on 2000-02-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the urban impact of economic globalization, the new inequalities among and within cities, and the new urban economy.
Author : Saskia Sassen
Release : 2018-05-30
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis Cities in a World Economy by : Saskia Sassen
Download or read book Cities in a World Economy written by Saskia Sassen. This book was released on 2018-05-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cities in a World Economy 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 features a cross-disciplinary approach to urban sociology using global examples, and discusses the impact of global processes on the social structure of cities. The Fifth Edition 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.
Author : Paul L. Knox
Release : 1995-07-06
Genre : Political Science
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Book Rating : 701/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis World Cities in a World-System by : Paul L. Knox
Download or read book World Cities in a World-System written by Paul L. Knox. This book was released on 1995-07-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cities such as New York, Tokyo and London are the centres of transnational corporate headquarters, of international finance, transnational institutions, and telecommunications. They are the dominant loci in the contemporary world economy, and the influence of a relatively small number of cities within world affairs has been a feature of the shift from an international to a more global economy which took place during the 1970s and 1980s. This book brings together the leading researchers in the field to write seventeen original essays which cover both the theoretical and practical issues involved. They examine the nature of world cities, and their demands as special places in need of specific urban policies; the relationship between world cities within global networks of economic flows; and the relationship between world city research and world-systems analysis and other theoretical frameworks.
Author : Anthony King
Release : 2015-03-27
Genre : Science
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Book Rating : 208/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Urbanism, Colonialism and the World-economy by : Anthony King
Download or read book Urbanism, Colonialism and the World-economy written by Anthony King. This book was released on 2015-03-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent years have witnessed a surge in public awareness concerning the impact of world economic forces on cities. In this challenging book, the author argues that though the consciousness is new the phenomena themselves are not. For the past two centuries at least, world economic, political and cultural forces have been major factors shaping cities, patterns of urbanization and the physical and spatial forms of the built environment. Anthony King believes that the historical context of contemporary global restructuring must be recognized if present-day urban and regional change is to be properly understood. He explores and documents the cultural and spatial links between metropolitan core and colonial periphery and examines the historical foundations of the world urban system. He also looks at the social production of building and urban form, and demonstrates their potential for understanding economic, political, socail and cultural change on a global scale.
Author : Collectif
Release : 2016-09-29
Genre : Political Science
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Book Rating : 238/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Globalization and the City by : Collectif
Download or read book Globalization and the City written by Collectif. This book was released on 2016-09-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world today is far less a global village than a “global city”, as global network of multidimensional urban spaces of congestion prominently forming – and also formed by – globalization. But the relevance of cities is nothing but new. They were essential for culture and civilization worldwide, they allowed a centralization of power and knowledge and they were crucial for the division of labor and for the organization of mass demand. Further, as places of intense and continuous interactions, cities are the locations par excellence for global history to take place. Thus, there is a need to study the history of cities in connection with the history of globalization from this perspective. This book is dedicated to contribute to the still underdeveloped but growing literature connecting the history of cities worldwide and their relation to global processes. The authors do so from various disciplinary backgrounds and by referring to different times and places. We visit ancient Alexandria, nineteenth century Zanzibar, and modern-day São Paolo, among others, and we view these cities not only in their globality, but also through their heritage, their economic relevance, their architecture, or financial flows connecting them. Further, the book also contains systematic considerations about “global city”, especially the general role of cities in development, cities in global history teaching, and cities' relationships to global commodity chains.
