The Global City
Subtitle: New York, London, Tokyo.
Edition: 2 edition
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: September 1, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 398
ISBN-13: 9780691070636
Subjects: International finance; Urban communities; Tokyo; New York (State); Japan; Social Science; Sociology - Urban; Sociology; England; USA; International - Economics; Sociology - General; Economics; Social Science / Sociology / General; Financial services industry; London; New York
First sentence: FOR CENTURIES, the world economy has shaped the life of cities.
Description: "This is a revised edition of the classic work that chronicles how New York, London, and Tokyo became command centers of the global economy and in the process underwent massive and parallel changes. Saskia Sassen has updated all the data in the book and thoroughly rewritten all of the chapters to engage with debates sparked by the first edition and reflect the trends in globalization that have occurred since the book came out in 1991. She has also added a new preface and a substantial new epilogue.

This is a timely edition of a work that changed the way we think about cities in the global economy."--BOOK JACKET.