Analytic Borderlands

Economy and Culture in the Global City

Bibliographic Data

ID20080110
AuthorsSassen (0000-0002-3468-6923, Columbia University, corresponding author), Saskia Sassen
Year2002
Pages131-143
Publication date2002-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeCHAPTER
VenueCrossing Borders and Shifting Boundaries : Vol. II (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherVS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1007/978-3-663-09527-9_9
OpenAlexW1555606015
ISBN9783663095279
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited10

What happens to place in a global economy? And how is globalization inscribed — in the spaces of the economy and of culture, in built form, and generally in space? I want to use these questions to argue that the dominant narrative about economic globalization is a narrative of eviction. Key concepts in the dominant account — globalization, information economy, and telematics — all suggest that place no longer matters. And they suggest that the type of place represented by major cities may have become obsolete from the perspective of the economy, particularly for the leading industries as these have the best access to, and are the most advanced users of, telematics.KeywordsEconomic GlobalizationCorporate CultureFinancial IndustryInformation EconomyGlobal CityThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves

Art · Economic geography · Economics · Economy · Geography · Globalization · Information economy · Inscribed figure · Market economy · Narrative · Political science · Telecommunications · Telematics · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Engineering · Global Urban Networks and Dynamics · Urban Planning and Governance

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