Sassen S. Cities in a World Economy

Thousand Oaks, London, New Delhi: Pine Forge Press. 2000. 200 p. ISBN: 0-7619-8696-0 (cloth: a l k . paper); ISBN: 0-761-9-8666-9 (pbk.: alk. paper).Cities in a World Economy presents sociologists with a new perspective on the study of urban sociology. The decentralization and privatization of the world's economies has radically altered such things as the organization of labour, the structure of consumption, and the distribution of earnings in ways that have yet to be fully realized. In a world economy that is truly more global than it has ever been, the Second Edition of this popular textbook addresses the need to account for the global economies' increasing influence on the social structures of cities.Place and Production in the Global EconomyThe Urban Impact of Economic GlobalizationThe Global Economy Today
Strategic Places
Conclusion: After the Pax AmericanaNew Inequalities among CitiesImpacts on Primate Systems: The Case of Latin America and the Caribbean
Impacts on Balanced Urban Systems: The Case of Europe
Transnational Urban Systems
Conclusion: Urban Growth and Its Multiple MeaningsThe New Urban Economy: The Intersection of Global Processes and Place
Producer Services
The Formation of a New Production Complex
Impact of the Late 1980s Financial Crisis on Global City Functions: The Case of New York City
Conclusion: Cities as Pos tindustrial Production SitesIssues and Case Studies in the New Urban EconomyThe Development of Global Gty Functions: The Case of Miami
The Growing Density and Specialization of Functions in Financial Districts: Toronto
The Concentration of Functions and Geographic Scale: Sydney
Globalization and Concentration: The Case of Leading Financial Centers
Why Do We Need Financial Centers in the Global Digital Era?
The Space Economy of the Center
Conclusion: Concentration and the Redefinition of the CenterThe New Inequalities within Cities
Transformations in the Organization of the Labor Process
The Earnings Distribution in a Service-Dominated Economy
Conclusion: A Widening GapA New Geography of Centers and Margins:Summary and Implications
The Locus of the Peripheral
Contested SpaceGlossary/Index