Cities in a World Economy - Brossura

Sassen, Saskia

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0761986669 ISBN 13: 9780761986669

Casa editrice: SAGE Publications Inc, 2000

Riassunto

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.

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L'autore:

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.

Contenuti:

Place and Production in the Global Economy
The Urban Impact of Economic Globalization
New Inequalities among Cities
The New Urban Economy
The Intersection of Global Processes and Place
Issues and Case Studies in the New Urban Economy
The New Inequalities within Cities
A New Geography of Centres and Margins
Summary and Implications

Su questa edizione

• Editore: SAGE Publications Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0761986669
• ISBN 13: 9780761986669
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 2
• Numero di pagine: 200