Cities in a World Economy

Saskia Sassen is the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and co-chair of The Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University (www.saskiasassen.com). She is the author of Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages (2008), A Sociology of Globalization (2007), and The Global City (1991), and editor of Deciphering the Global: Its Spaces, Scales and Subjects (2007). Her books have been translated into 22 languages. She is the editor of the volume on urban sustainability in the new 14-volume Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (2006), for which she coordinated a network of researchers and activists in 30 countries.

• Preface to the Fifth EditionPreface to the Fourth EditionPreface to the Third EditionPreface to the Second EditionPreface to the First EditionList of ExhibitsChapter 1. Place and Production in the Global EconomyNoteChapter 2. The Urban Impact of Economic GlobalizationThe Global Economy TodayStrategic PlacesConclusion: After the Pax AmericanaNotesChapter 2 AppendixChapter 3. National and Transnational Urban SystemsGlobal Patterns of UrbanizationUrbanization in Africa TodayUrbanization in Asia TodayImpacts on Primate Systems: The Case of Latin America and the CaribbeanImpacts on Balanced Urban Systems: The Case of EuropeTransnational Urban SystemsGlobal Cities and ImmigrationGlobal Cities and Diasporic NetworksA Politics of Places on Global CircuitsConclusion: Urban Growth and Its Multiple MeaningsNotesChapter 3 AppendixChapter 4. The New Urban Economy: The Intersection of Global Processes and PlaceFrom the Keynesian City to the Global CityThe Multiple Circuits of the Global EconomyThe Specialized Differences of Cities Matter: There Is No Perfect Global CityUrban/Rural Specificity Feeds the Knowledge EconomyThe Global City as a Postindustrial Production SiteProducer ServicesThe Formation of a New Production ComplexCorporate Headquarters and CitiesAn Emerging Global Labor MarketConclusion: Cities as Postindustrial Production SitesNotesChapter 4 AppendixChapter 5. Issues and Case Studies in the New Urban EconomyThe Development of Global City Functions: The Case of MiamiThe Growing Density and Specialization of Functions in Financial Districts: TorontoThe Concentration of Functions and Geographic Scale: SydneyCompetition or Specialized Differences: The Financial Centers of Hong Kong and ShanghaiMaking New Global Circuits in Energy and Finance: The Gulf StatesAn Old Imperial City in Today’s New East–West Geopolitics: IstanbulGlobalization and Concentration: The Case of Leading Financial CentersWhy Do Financial Centers Still Exist in the Global Digital Era?In the Digital Era: More Concentration Than DispersalConclusion: The Space Economy of CentralityNotesChapter 5 AppendixChapter 6. The New Inequalities Within CitiesTransformations in the Organization of the Labor ProcessThe Informal EconomyThe Earnings Distribution in a Service-Dominated EconomyThe Birth of Global SlumsThe Restructuring of Urban ConsumptionConclusion: A Widening GapNotesChapter 7. Global Cities and Global Survival CircuitsWomen in the Global EconomyLocalizing the GlobalThe Other Workers in the Advanced Corporate EconomyProducing a Global Supply of the New Caretakers: The Feminization of SurvivalConclusionNotesChapter 7 AppendixChapter 8. The Urbanizing of Global Governance ChallengesCities as Frontier Spaces for Global GovernanceBridging the Ecologies of Cities and of the BiosphereWhen Finance Hits Urban SpaceWhen Pursuing National Security Is the Making of Urban InsecurityNotesChapter 9. A New Geography of Centers and MarginsSummary and ImplicationsThe Locus of the PeripheralContested SpaceReferences and Suggested ReadingIndexAbout the Author