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Cities in a World Economy (Sociology for a New Century Series)

Cities in a World Economy (Sociology for a New Century Series)

by SaskiaSassen (Author)

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    Paperback 2006

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The Third Edition of the international bestselling 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, Saskia Sassen addresses the need to account for the global economies increasing influence on the social structures of cities.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 288
 Edition: Third Edition
 Publisher: Pine Forge Press
Published: 23 May 2006
ISBN 10: 1412936802
ISBN 13: 9781412936804

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The third edition of the book tries to show how certain characteristics of our turn-of-the-millenium flows of money, information, and people have led to the emergence of new social formation global cities. These developments give new meaning to such fixtures of urban sociology as the centrality of place and the importance of geography in the social world. -- APADE
Author Bio
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.