Cities Today
A New Frontier for Major Developments
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9752125 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sassen (0000-0002-3468-6923, corresponding author), Saskia Sassen (Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 626 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 53-71 |
| Publication date | 2009-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7162 • E-ISSN: 1552-3349 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0002716209343561 |
| OpenAlex | W2101498442 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 17 |
| References cited | 11 |
The article examines several major structural trends contributing to the shift from the Keynesian routinized city to the strategic city that begins to emerge in the 1980s. Among the trends examined is the growth of the firm-to-firm economy, which includes corporate and industrial services as well as “urban manufacturing.” These kinds of services tend to be produced in cities, even when the firms being served are nonurban, such as mines, steel plants, or large factories. A second key, and counterintuitive, trend is the ongoing importance of spatial centrality for our most advanced economic sectors. The more globalized and digitized a sector becomes, the more its firms suffer from incomplete knowledge about their markets. Urban centrality enables the making of what the author calls urban knowledge capital: a collective production that is more than the sum of the knowledge of the professionals and the firms present in a city
Business · Capital (architecture · Centrality · Counterintuitive · Economic geography · Economic growth · Economic system · Economics · Economies of agglomeration · Frontier · Geography · Industrial organization · Market economy · Microeconomics · Political science · Production (economics · Global Urban Networks and Dynamics · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
Spatial approaches to a circular economy
Investigating the malleable socioeconomic resilience pathway to urban cohesion
Towards the Creative and Knowledge Economies
Next Generation Small Urban Manufacturing
Integrating Manufacturing
International connectedness and local disconnectedness
How does informalisation encourage or inhibit collective action by migrant workers? A comparative analysis of logistics warehouses in Italy and hand car washes in Britain
Informalization in gig food delivery in the UK
Le amministrative 2019 a Firenze e le cifre del PD
Testing a Global City Hypothesis
Abandoned spaces and technology displacement by labour
The rise of Kuala Lumpur as an Islamic financial frontier
Evaluating the participation of an ethnic minority group in informal employment
Unpacking State Production of Temporal Dispossession
Promoting innovation locally
Local Externalities and Ownership Choices in Foreign Acquisitions by Multinational Enterprises
Reconceptualizing Informal Work Practices
The Handbook of Service Industries
Cities in a World Economy
The Global City
Introduction—All the World is not Los Angeles, Nor Chicago
Cities in transformation
Post-Industrial Widgets
The patterns of job expansions in the USA
Redlining Revisited
Cartographies of Race and Class
Routes to the Informal Economy in New York's East Village
| Unique citing works | 17 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,21 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2025 (14) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 15 |