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Informationen zum Autor Saskia Sassen , Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago, is a leading expert on cities and globalizaiton. She has published numerous books, including The Global City (1991, 2000) Cities in a World Economy (1994), Globalization and its Discontents (1998), Losing Control? (1996), Guests and Aliens (1999), and The Mobility of Labor and Capital (1988). Klappentext First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Zusammenfassung A group of contributors look at how information flows have bound global cities together in networks. They also investigate emerging global cities in the developing world such as Sao Paulo, Shanghai and Mexico City. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Locating Cities on Global Circuits, Saskia Sassen Part I: The Urban Architecture of Global Networks 1. The Architecture of Global Networking Technologies, D. Linda García 2. Communication Grids: Cities and Infrastructure, Stephen Graham 3. Firms and Their Global Service Networks, Peter J. Taylor, D. R. F. Walker, and J. V. Beaverstock 4. Hierarchies of Dominance among World Cities: A Network Approach, David Smith and Michael Timberlake Part II: Cross-Border Regions 5. Mexico: The Making of a Global City, Christof Parnreiter 6. The Hormuz Corridor: Building a Cross-Border Region between Iran and the United Arab Emirates, Ali Parsa and Ramin Keivani 7. São Paulo: Articulating a Cross-Border Region, Sueli Ramos Schiffer 8. Beirut: Rebuilding Regional Circuits, Eric Huybrechts Part III. Network Nodes 9. Hong Kong: Global Capital Exchange, David R. Meyer 10. Shanghai: Reconnecting to the Global Economy, Felicity Rose Gu and Zilai Tang 11. Buenos Aires: Sociospatial Impacts of the Development of Global City Functions, Pablo Ciccolella and Iliana Mignaqui 12. Local Networks: Digital City Amsterdam, Patrick Riemens and Geert Lovink...
