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The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo. Revised Edition

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This classic work chronicles how New York, London, and Tokyo became command centers for the global economy and in the process underwent a series of massive and parallel changes. What distinguishes Sassen's theoretical framework is the emphasis on the formation of cross-border dynamics through which these cities and the growing number of other global cities begin to form strategic transnational networks. All the core data in this new edition have been updated, while the preface and epilogue discuss the relevant trends in globalization since the book originally came out in 1991.

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    September 16, 2001
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    Princeton Paperbacks
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    English
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    6 x 1.25 x 8.75 inches
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"One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1992"

"This is brilliant stuff, both in its broadness of sociological scope and its voluminous collection of data from a vast number of sources in the three cities."---Scott Lash, The Times Higher Education Supplement

"A very significant book indeed. . . . A systematic detailed analysis of the three largest urban economies in the advanced world."---Peter Hall, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research

"[A] high-powered and at times horrific book. Sassen shows how dangerously city life has been affected by the influx of employees of the multinational firms which move into major cities and virtually colonize them, riving even greater wedges between the rich and poor." ― The Observer

"A landmark study in the political economy of cities."---Anthony King, Newsline

"The most detailed and sophisticated anatomy yet published of the functioning of the new producer services sector in the global economy."---Mark Levine, Urban Affairs Quarterly

"The implications of Sassen's research . . . are sobering."---Rudolf Klein, Times Literary Supplement

"An exciting and persuasive work. It incorporates a herculean research effort."---Susan Fainstein, Journal of the American Planning Association

"A multi-disciplinary tour de force that should be read not only by regional economists but also by urban geographers, sociologists, and planners." ― Development and Change

About the Author

Saskia Sassen is Professor of Sociology and of the Social Sciences at the University of Chicago. Her other books include Guests and Aliens, The Mobility of Labor and Capital, Losing Control, and Globalization and Its Discontents.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Princeton University Press; Revised edition (September 16, 2001)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 480 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0691070636
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0691070636
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.5 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1.25 x 8.75 inches
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Saskia Sassen is the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and is the former Chair of the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University (www.saskiasassen.com). She studies cities, immigration, and states in the world economy, with inequality, gendering and digitization three key variables running though her work.

Among her recent books are The Global City (1991; 2001), A Sociology of Globalization (2007), Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages (2008), Expulsions: Brutality and Complexity in the Global Economy (2014; new edition forthcoming), and Cities in a World Economy (1994; 2018). She is currently working on Unstable Territories, based on the Storss Lectures she delivered at the Yale University Law School. For UNESCO, she organized a five-year project on sustainable human settlement with a network of researchers and activists in over thirty countries; it is published as one of the volumes of the Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (2006; http://www.eolss.net). Her books are translated in over twenty languages. She has written for The Guardian, The New York Times, Le Monde, Financial Times, Republica, El Pais, www.OpenDemocracy.net and several other newspapers and journals.

Sassen was born in the Netherlands, grew up in Argentina and Italy, studied in France, and then began her professional career in the United States. She has received many awards and honors, among them multiple doctor honoris causa, the 2013 Principe de Asturias Prize in the Social Sciences, election to the Royal Academy of the Sciences of the Netherlands, and named a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et Lettres by the French government.

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Many articles and interviews on www.saskiasassen.com

Sample Interviews:

"Age of Extinction: An Interview With Saskia Sassen", interview by Giulia Turino, King's Review, November 24, 2017.

http://kingsreview.co.uk/articles/interview-saskia-sassen/

"In conversation with Saskia Sassen", interview by G. Sampath, The Hindu, February 4, 2017. http://www.thehindu.com/books/I-think-we-need-more-cities-Saskia-Sassen/article17194604.ece

"Interview with Saskia Sassen",interviewed by Andrew Iliadis, Figure/Ground, March 9th, 2015.

http://figureground.org/interview-with-saskia-sassen/

"AD Interviews: Saskia Sassen", Arch Daily, August 22, 2013.

http://www.archdaily.com/418484/ad-interviews-saskia-sassen/

"A strong financial centre contributes to inequality", Live Mint & The Wall Street Journal, January 29, 2013.

http://www.livemint.com/Specials/pHagXhGMg3sD1gpQIf1fXK/A-strong-financial-centre-contributes-to-inequality.html

"Why the middle class is revolting", The Hindu, January 22, 2013.

http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/interview/why-the-middle-class-is-revolting/article4299097.ece

"The Global Street or the Democracy of the Powerless", Kultura Iberalna, February 2012.

http://kulturaliberalna.pl/2012/02/20/the-global-street-or-the-democracy-of-the-powerless/

"Se ha roto el ciclo, porque el salario del trabajador ya no permite mantener el consume", interview by Anatxu Zabalbeascoa, El País, January 2012.

http://vimeo.com/36148271

"Saskia Sassen: geographer?", Globe - Planet Earth blog, 2012.

http://www.franceculture.fr/blog-globe-2012-05-23-saskia-sassen-geographe

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Chad Stephens
5.0 out of 5 stars Great.
Reviewed in the United States on August 17, 2024
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Mats Frick
4.0 out of 5 stars A solid reference work
Reviewed in the United States on March 18, 2003
Sassen aims to - unpack the concept of "the city" (p. xviii) - as a unit of analysis in sociology and economics from a global perspective. The scope of this endeavor is quite staggering and she has to bring an number of different fields under the same conceptual umbrella in order to capture the elusive character of 'the city'. Her method is the painstaking analysis of a huge amount of data from a vast array of sources. This might seem unnecessary to some people who are more interested in bold visions of the future á la Manuel Castells or Antonio Negri. The thing about Castells or Negri though is that you need a leap of faith to interpret the world according to their views. Sassen is more boring to read but one can always rely on her providing the data leading up to her conclusions. This is crucial to anyone wanting to take a stab at the interdisciplinary phenomenon of the global city and use availible data for comparison. The thorough research foundation of the book makes it easy to link the issues to areas that otherwise would be quite far apart such as urban planning and service management. Personally I think the most important message is that place and location matters maybe even more nowadays than it used to when production and consumption was explicitly bound by the physical limitations of our world.
In all I think that this book is a must read for anyone even remotely interested i urban matters. It's a bit tough to get through though and the visual presentation of the data could have been better, hence rendering the book a four rather than a five star grade.
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Hiroo Yamagata
2.0 out of 5 stars History was VERY unkind to this book....
Reviewed in the United States on September 19, 2004
This is a sad book. History was very unkkind to this woman. Just when she thought she completed here masterpiece, a book that was supposed to ensure her tenure and fame and all the things that a sociologist may want, everything blew up in her face.

Her theory in the original version went like this; Why oh why are there huge concentration of functions in Tokyo, London, New York, when so much IT allows easier communication and remote office and all that? Why do these cities grow, when all the production and other functions gets shipped off to backwater countries?

Well, she said, IT allowed the separation of production and management/development. That's why managers remain in cities with their high pay, while actual sweat work goes to third world child labor under measly wages.

But why did the cities grow bigger? Well, because cities are the new production centers. Management and stuff requires a lot of legal services and accountants and other services etc that are much easily available in the cities. That's why all those management stuff accumulated in the city.

But aren't those activites just leeches to the actual job? They don't create any new value, do they? Aha, she says. But they do! Look at all those financial innovations, like hedge funds and derivatives and stuff! Look how much money they are making! They are not leeches, they are creating new values. You gotta throw away your old ideas about the economy! Only cities can produce that sort of new financial products, and that's why London, NY, Tokyo are growing!

There was another brownie point. Her theory went very well with shallow anti-globalism arguments. Managers stay in NY/London with high pays, while at the factories half way around the globe, workers suffer forever under low wage.

But exactly when the first edition came out, everything changed.

First was the collapse of the Japanese economy, that took down Tokyo with it. Her theory had nothing to prepare or explain this. What happened to the new production? What happened to all those financial innovation? Why didn't that work in Tokyo? In the book, Sassen tries to answer this using various ad-hoc excuses, but the more she does it, the less convincing the original proposition becomes. So it wasn't THAT important, after all? All those theories of yours were only subordinate to those other stuff that you never mentioned before?

And yes, what about those innovations? Collapse of LTCM and huge hedge funds etc. since the first edition made finance less glamorous. Arbitrage does increase some efficiency of the market, which does create some value. But they were not the major new "product" to sustain the world.

Her theory about the separation of production and management wasn't so hot afterall. Look at Asia, look at China! Concentration of production functions REQUIRED many management and design / development functions to go along with them. Also, the factories did make the workers richer, and as a result, much of Asia and China really became better off. There are dicrepancies, and differences in earnings, but its nothing like what Sassen had described.

It's amazing that NOTHING of here original theory remained. In this second version, she tries to pick up the pieces, but they are too completely destroyed to be picked up, and the effort is almost painful to read. I wonder why she even bothered with the second edition. It's not a book worth salvaging in 2001, and it's hardly worth reading, except as a sad but amusing look back at the strange ideas of the past.
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Tsadari Sofia
4.0 out of 5 stars Why cities matter?
Reviewed in the United States on January 23, 2008
A very good choice for anyone interested in social or/and city matters. Saskia Sassen's (University of Chicago and London School of Economics) books are translated in 16 langueges and her comments have appeared in The Guardian, The New York Times, Le Monde Diplomatique and the Financial Times among others. She claims that cities have re-emerged as stategic places for a wide range of projects and dynamics.
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Jenny Barnes
1.0 out of 5 stars Lots of data, too little concept
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 8, 2010
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I started reading this with a lot of enthusiasm - the fundamental idea of the 3 world cities forming one electronic megacity is fascinating, and provocative. But - the book disappoints. There is far too much detail, precise numbers where trends are what is needed (precise numbers in appendices, sure) - I have no trouble with numbers if they illuminate, but too many. And exhaustive description in the text of all those who have researched or published in a particular area - (that's what references are for)....What argument there was seemed to be drowned, and the only parts that made much sense were those saying what Sassen planned to do, later in the book - but it never seemed to deliver.

In response to the 5 star review " It does not set out to be an entertaining page-turner for the casual reader (I think the previous reviewer somehow had this impression). " I have a degree in sociology and politics; I am not a casual reader.
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