Cities in a World Economy

Cities in a World Economy


SAGE Publications, Inc
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Contents
 
Chapter 1. Place and Production in the Global Economy
 
Chapter 2. The Urban Impact of Economic Globalization
 
Chapter 3. National and Transnational Urban Systems
 
Chapter 4. The New Urban Economy: The Intersection of Global Processes and Place
 
Chapter 5. Issues and Case Studies in the New Urban Economy
 
Chapter 6. The New Inequalities Within Cities
 
Chapter 7. Global Cities and Global Survival Circuits
 
Chapter 8. The Urbanizing of Global Governance Challenges
 
Chapter 9. A New Geography of Centers and Margins
Independent Customer Reviews

“No other book locates cities (as distinct but changing settlement forms and institutional arrangements) in the world economy so clearly and concisely.”

Renia Ehrenfeucht
University Of New Orleans

“I enjoy teaching with this book. It is much more challenging than a traditional textbook, and students learn about globalization, post-industrialization, stratification, gender and race inequality, and of course the importance of urbanization and the rise of global cities.”

Stephanie Moller
University Of North Carolina-Charlotte

Excellent general text. I put this on the 'Recommended' reading list, and also recommended it to a collegue teaching Urban Geography next semester.

Mr Joshua R Rodd
Geography Dept, Middlebury College
December 14, 2015

Higher level than I could use for Sophomores and even Juniors. I may use it for my "World Society" course I am teaching in Summer 2014.

Too much text made it challenging to implement as readings.

Mr Mark Caldwell
Sociology Dept, Univ Of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
February 28, 2014

A very highly recommended book for any student of urban and economic geography.

Dr Diganta Das
Humanities and Social Studies, National Institute of Education (NIE)
October 24, 2013
Contributors: 

Saskia Sassen

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.