false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172255159m/154298.jpg 154298 2 Reimagining cities as nodes of an immense network of commercial and political transactions, sociologist Saskia Sassen has transformed Information Age geography. <I>Global Networks, Linked Cities</I> collects research, theory, and case studies examining cities in this context by Sassen and 19 other social scientists, focusing particularly on the recent explosive growth in areas formerly--now inaccurately--called the Third World.<p> The jargon in <I>Global Networks, Linked Cities</I> can be fairly dense and the style arid, but the essays reward patient readers with insight into the interlinked worlds of finance, geography, communications, and geopolitics. Most of the pieces look closely at individual urban regions: Shanghai, Buenos Aires, and, interestingly, Beirut. All have much to tell us about the organic urban development coevolving with globalized commerce and communications, says editor Sassen. As barriers to free information flow erode, we see mergers between political, business, and academic entities.<I>Global Networks, Linked Cities</I> shows us how this is happening and how to think about what's coming next. <I>--Rob Lightner</I> 148921 1 3 2002 Global Networks, Linked Cities total:3|4:1|3:2| 3 10 11 0 0 0 false false Wed Nov 11 10:16:49 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 11 10:16:49 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Mon Sep 07 12:20:03 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 07 12:20:03 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Sep 17 08:40:08 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 17 08:40:08 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Tue Jul 08 16:45:55 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 08 16:45:55 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Wed Jun 18 20:50:41 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 18 20:50:48 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Tue Apr 22 16:51:20 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 22 16:51:22 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Mon Mar 24 02:33:44 -0700 2008 Mon Mar 24 02:33:44 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Sun Aug 05 07:56:13 -0700 2007 Sun Aug 05 07:56:13 -0700 2007 0 0 false false Sat Jul 14 13:58:06 -0700 2007 Sat Jul 14 13:58:06 -0700 2007 3 0 false false Wed Jul 04 17:38:34 -0700 2007 Wed Jul 04 17:38:34 -0700 2007 3 0 false false Wed Apr 18 07:34:53 -0700 2007 Wed Apr 18 07:34:53 -0700 2007 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=154298