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The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo
This classic work chronicles how New York, London, and Tokyo became command centers for the global economy and in the process underwent a series of massive and parallel changes. What distinguishes Sassen's theoretical framework is the emphasis on the formation of cross-border dynamics through which these cities and the growing number of other global cities begin to form st...more
Paperback, 480 pages
Published
August 27th 2001
by Princeton University Press
(first published 1991)
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I thought this a thinly disguised neo-con celebration of hypercapitalism, "semantic proliferation" and the liberation of individual identity from cultural rootedness in a global economy. Maybe I was wrong. Maybe some day I'll try again. But I remember Sassen being as irritating as Francis Fukuyama.
If you can handle lots and lots of economics and statistics, then I recommend this. However, if you can't, then it could be problematic. On the whole, though, it's a very interesting analysis of how globalization has affected urban economies. A lot of this seems fairly obvious nowadays, especially if you've read a fair amount of contemporary geography, but it's still a very interesting in-depth analysis.
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Saskia Sassen (born in The Hague, January 5, 1949) is a Dutch sociologist noted for her analyses of globalization and international human migration. She is currently Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology at Columbia University and Centennial visiting Professor at the London School of Economics. Sassen coined the term global city. She is married to the sociologist Richard Sennett.
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