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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 w...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sassen, Saskia
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, ©2001.
Edición:2nd ed.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • One Overview
  • PART ONE: THE GEOGRAPHY AND COMPOSITION OF GLOBALIZATION
  • Two Dispersal and New Forms of Centralization
  • Mobility and Agglomeration
  • Capital Mobility and Labor Market Formation
  • Conclusion
  • Three New Patterns in Foreign Direct Investment
  • Major Patterns
  • International Transactions in Services
  • Conclusion
  • Four Internationalization and Expansion of the Financial Industry
  • Conditions and Components of Growth
  • The Global Capital Market Today
  • Financial Crises
  • Conclusion
  • PART TWO: THE ECONOMIC ORDER OF THE GLOBAL CITY
  • Five The Producer Services
  • The Category Services
  • The Spatial Organization of Finance
  • New Forms of Centrality
  • Conclusion
  • Six Global Cities: Postindustrial Production Sites
  • Location of Producer Services: Nation, Region, and City
  • New Elements in the Urban Hierarchy
  • Conclusion
  • Seven Elements of a Global Urban System: Networks and Hierarchies
  • Towards Networked Systems
  • Expansion and Concentration
  • Leading Currencies in International Transactions
  • The International Property Market
  • Conclusion
  • PART THREE: THE SOCIAL ORDER OF THE GLOBAL CITY
  • Eight Employment and Earnings
  • Three Cities, One Tale?
  • Earnings
  • Conclusion
  • Nine Economic Restructuring as Class and Spatial Polarization
  • Overall Effects of Leading Industries
  • Social Geography
  • Consumption
  • Casual and Informal Labor Markets
  • Race and Nationality in the Labor Market
  • IN CONCLUSION
  • Ten A New Urban Regime?
  • Epilogue
  • The Global City Model
  • The Financial Order
  • The Producer Services
  • Social and spatial polarization.