Global Networks, Linked Cities

Bibliographic Data

ID19904698
EditorsSassen (0000-0002-3468-6923), Saskia Sassen
Year2016
Pages376
Publication date2016-04-15
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueGlobal Networks, Linked Cities (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9781315538808
OpenAlexW1597549215
Open LibraryOL33567801M
ISBN9781315538808
LanguageEN
Citations received347

In her pioneering book The Global City, Saskia Sassen argued that certain cities in the postindustrial world have become central nodes in the new service economy, strategic sites for the acceleration of capital and information flows as well as spaces of increasing socio-economic polarization. One effect has been that such cities have gained in importance and power relative to nation-states. In this new collection of essays, Sassen and a distinguished group of contributors expand on the author's earlier work in a number of important ways, focusing on two key issues. First, they look at how information flows have bound global cities together in networks, creating a global city web whose constituent cities become global through the networks they participate in. Second, they investigate emerging global cities in the developing world-Sao Paulo, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Mexico City, Beirut, the Dubai-Iran corridor, and Buenos Aires. They show how these globalizing zones are not only replicating many features of the top tier of global cities, but are also generating new socio-economic patterns as well. These new patterns of development promise to lead to significant changes in the structure of the global economy, as more and more cities worldwide are integrated into globalization's circuitry. Includes contributions from:Linda Garcia, Patrice Riemens, Geert Lovink, Peter Taylor, David Smith, Michael Timberlake, Stephen Graham, Sueli Schiffer Ramos, Christoff Parnreiter, Felicity Gu, David Meyer, Pablo Ciccolella, Iliana Mignaqui, Eric Huybrechts, Ali Parsa. Also includes six maps

Economic geography · Geography · Cross-Border Cooperation and Integration · Global Urban Networks and Dynamics · Local Government Finance and Decentralization · Business enterprises, computer networks · Computers and civilization · Globalization · Information Technology · Urban economics

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