The Global City
by Saskia Sassen
Princeton Univ Pr, 1992, 416 pages
ISBN: 0691025673


Book Description
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 strategic transnational networks. All the core data in this new edition have been updated, while the preface and epilogue discuss the relevant trends in globalization since the book originally came out in 1991.


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About the Author
Saskia Sassen is Professor of Sociology, University of Chicago, and Centennial Visiting Professor, London School of Economics. She is one of the foremost theoreticians of the emerging information society.


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Home page:
http://social-sciences.uchicago.edu/sociology/sassen.html

Biography:
http://www.law.uchicago.edu/faculty/sassen/

Courses and Seminars:
http://www.law.uchicago.edu/faculty/sassen/teaching.html

Lectures:
http://www.megacities.nl/lecture_sassen.htm

Interview:
http://www.interlog.com/~blake/sassen.htm

Transnationalism Project:
http://cas.uchicago.edu/scg/transnat_1.html

Articles:
http://www.bk.tudelft.nl/vs/alfa/Data/SYMPO/PAP/Sassen.htm
http://nuance.dhs.org/lbo-talk/9905/1075.html
http://www.alumni.uchicago.edu/magazine/0012/features/sassen.html

e-mail:
s-sassen@uchicago.edu