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Klappentext The Fourth Edition of Cities in a World Economy shows how certain characteristics of our turn-of-the-millennium flows of money, information and people have led to the emergence of a new social formation: global cities. These developments give new meaning to such fixtures of urban sociology as the centrality of place and the importance of geography in our social world. New to the Fourth Edition: . new chapter (8) analysing the challenges and vulnerabilities facing major cities in terms of three major challenges: (1) the environment, (2) global financial crisis, and (3) asymmetric war . new section in chapter 3 on global migrations . new section in Chapter 4 on comparing global cities . presents three new case studies in Chapter 5: (1) comparing Shanghai and Hong Kong, (2) the Gulf States, and (3) Istanbul Key Features: . takes a multidisciplinary approach to urban sociology, supported by global examples . examines the impact of global processes on the social structure of cities, increasing students' world awareness . strikes an ideal balance between maintaining academic rigor and employing new and innovative concepts . discusses in Chapter 7 a unique perspective on the highly gendered and unequal nature of the global city, and how it forces the underprivileged to live a dangerous and unpredictable life on global survival circuits Zusammenfassung Cutting edge update of Sasia Sassen's popular exploration of how rapid and wide-spread developments in the areas of money, information, and people have led to the emergence of a new social formation: global cities.
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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
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"No other book locates cities (as distinct but changing settlement forms and institutional arrangements) in the world economy so clearly and concisely." Renia Ehrenfeucht 20110504
