Research Catalog

Title

The global city : New York, London, Tokyo / Saskia Sassen.

Author

Sassen, Saskia.

Publication

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2001], ©2001.

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Details

Description

xxvi, 447 pages; 24 cm

Summary

• "This is a revised edition of the classic work that chronicles how New York, London, and Tokyo became command centers of the global economy and in the process underwent massive and parallel changes. Saskia Sassen has updated all the data in the book and thoroughly rewritten all of the chapters to engage with debates sparked by the first edition and reflect the trends in globalization that have occurred since the book came out in 1991. She has also added a new preface and a substantial new epilogue.
• This is a timely edition of a work that changed the way we think about cities in the global economy."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Financial services industry > New York
• Financial services industry > Tokyo
• Financial services industry > London
• International finance
• International economic relations
• Financial Management
• New York (N.Y.) > Economic conditions
• Tokyo (Japan) > Economic conditions
• London (England) > Economic conditions

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [383]-433) and index.

Contents

1. Overview -- Pt. 1. The Geography and Composition of Globalization. 2. Dispersal and New Forms of Centralization. 3. New Patterns in Foreign Direct Investment. 4. Internationalization and Expansion of the Financial Industry -- Pt. 2. The Economic Order of the Global City. 5. The Producer Services. 6. Global Cities: Postindustrial Production Sites. 7. Elements of a Global Urban System: Networks and Hierarchies -- Pt. 3. The Social Order of the Global City. 8. Employment and Earnings. 9. Economic Restructuring as Class and Spatial Polarization. 10. A New Urban Regime? App. A. Classification of Producer Services U.S., Japanese, and British SIC -- App. B. Definitions of Urban Units: Tokyo, London, New York -- App. C. Population of Selected Prefectures and Major Prefectural Cities -- App. D. Tokyo's Land Market.

ISBN

0691070636 (PB)

LCCN

2001021130

OCLC

• ocm45799502
• SCSB-4183819

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries