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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. ; Oxford :
Princeton University Press,
©2001.
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Edición: | 2nd ed. |
Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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.