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Author Sassen, Saskia.
Title The global city : New York, London, Tokyo / Saskia Sassen.
Publication Info Princeton, N.J. ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, ©2001.
Edition 2nd ed.



Descript 1 online resource (xxvi, 447 pages)
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Edition 2nd ed.
Note Previous edition: 1991.
Contents One Overview -- PART ONE: THE GEOGRAPHY AND COMPOSITION OF GLOBALIZATION -- Two Dispersal and New Forms of Centralization -- Mobility and Agglomeration -- Capital Mobility and Labor Market Formation -- Conclusion -- Three New Patterns in Foreign Direct Investment -- Major Patterns -- International Transactions in Services -- Conclusion -- Four Internationalization and Expansion of the Financial Industry -- Conditions and Components of Growth -- The Global Capital Market Today -- Financial Crises -- Conclusion -- PART TWO: THE ECONOMIC ORDER OF THE GLOBAL CITY -- Five The Producer Services -- The Category Services -- The Spatial Organization of Finance -- New Forms of Centrality -- Conclusion -- Six Global Cities: Postindustrial Production Sites -- Location of Producer Services: Nation, Region, and City -- New Elements in the Urban Hierarchy -- Conclusion -- Seven Elements of a Global Urban System: Networks and Hierarchies -- Towards Networked Systems -- Expansion and Concentration -- Leading Currencies in International Transactions -- The International Property Market -- Conclusion -- PART THREE: THE SOCIAL ORDER OF THE GLOBAL CITY -- Eight Employment and Earnings -- Three Cities, One Tale? -- Earnings -- Conclusion -- Nine Economic Restructuring as Class and Spatial Polarization -- Overall Effects of Leading Industries -- Social Geography -- Consumption -- Casual and Informal Labor Markets -- Race and Nationality in the Labor Market -- IN CONCLUSION -- Ten A New Urban Regime? -- Epilogue -- The Global City Model -- The Financial Order -- The Producer Services -- Social and spatial polarization.
ISBN 9781400847488 (electronic bk.)
1400847486 (electronic bk.)
1400847486
0691070636
9780691070636
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Author Sassen, Saskia.
Subject Financial services industry -- New York (State) -- New York.
Financial services industry -- Japan -- Tokyo.
Financial services industry -- England -- London.
International finance.
International economic relations.
New York (N.Y.) -- Economic conditions.
Tokyo (Japan) -- Economic conditions.
London (England) -- Economic conditions.
Descript 1 online resource (xxvi, 447 pages)
Content text txt
Media computer c
Carrier online resource cr
Descript data file rda
Edition 2nd ed.
Note Previous edition: 1991.
Contents One Overview -- PART ONE: THE GEOGRAPHY AND COMPOSITION OF GLOBALIZATION -- Two Dispersal and New Forms of Centralization -- Mobility and Agglomeration -- Capital Mobility and Labor Market Formation -- Conclusion -- Three New Patterns in Foreign Direct Investment -- Major Patterns -- International Transactions in Services -- Conclusion -- Four Internationalization and Expansion of the Financial Industry -- Conditions and Components of Growth -- The Global Capital Market Today -- Financial Crises -- Conclusion -- PART TWO: THE ECONOMIC ORDER OF THE GLOBAL CITY -- Five The Producer Services -- The Category Services -- The Spatial Organization of Finance -- New Forms of Centrality -- Conclusion -- Six Global Cities: Postindustrial Production Sites -- Location of Producer Services: Nation, Region, and City -- New Elements in the Urban Hierarchy -- Conclusion -- Seven Elements of a Global Urban System: Networks and Hierarchies -- Towards Networked Systems -- Expansion and Concentration -- Leading Currencies in International Transactions -- The International Property Market -- Conclusion -- PART THREE: THE SOCIAL ORDER OF THE GLOBAL CITY -- Eight Employment and Earnings -- Three Cities, One Tale? -- Earnings -- Conclusion -- Nine Economic Restructuring as Class and Spatial Polarization -- Overall Effects of Leading Industries -- Social Geography -- Consumption -- Casual and Informal Labor Markets -- Race and Nationality in the Labor Market -- IN CONCLUSION -- Ten A New Urban Regime? -- Epilogue -- The Global City Model -- The Financial Order -- The Producer Services -- Social and spatial polarization.
ISBN 9781400847488 (electronic bk.)
1400847486 (electronic bk.)
1400847486
0691070636
9780691070636
Author Sassen, Saskia.
Subject Financial services industry -- New York (State) -- New York.
Financial services industry -- Japan -- Tokyo.
Financial services industry -- England -- London.
International finance.
International economic relations.
New York (N.Y.) -- Economic conditions.
Tokyo (Japan) -- Economic conditions.
London (England) -- Economic conditions.

Subject Financial services industry -- New York (State) -- New York.
Financial services industry -- Japan -- Tokyo.
Financial services industry -- England -- London.
International finance.
International economic relations.
New York (N.Y.) -- Economic conditions.
Tokyo (Japan) -- Economic conditions.
London (England) -- Economic conditions.
Descript 1 online resource (xxvi, 447 pages)
Content text txt
Media computer c
Carrier online resource cr
Descript data file rda
Note Previous edition: 1991.
Contents One Overview -- PART ONE: THE GEOGRAPHY AND COMPOSITION OF GLOBALIZATION -- Two Dispersal and New Forms of Centralization -- Mobility and Agglomeration -- Capital Mobility and Labor Market Formation -- Conclusion -- Three New Patterns in Foreign Direct Investment -- Major Patterns -- International Transactions in Services -- Conclusion -- Four Internationalization and Expansion of the Financial Industry -- Conditions and Components of Growth -- The Global Capital Market Today -- Financial Crises -- Conclusion -- PART TWO: THE ECONOMIC ORDER OF THE GLOBAL CITY -- Five The Producer Services -- The Category Services -- The Spatial Organization of Finance -- New Forms of Centrality -- Conclusion -- Six Global Cities: Postindustrial Production Sites -- Location of Producer Services: Nation, Region, and City -- New Elements in the Urban Hierarchy -- Conclusion -- Seven Elements of a Global Urban System: Networks and Hierarchies -- Towards Networked Systems -- Expansion and Concentration -- Leading Currencies in International Transactions -- The International Property Market -- Conclusion -- PART THREE: THE SOCIAL ORDER OF THE GLOBAL CITY -- Eight Employment and Earnings -- Three Cities, One Tale? -- Earnings -- Conclusion -- Nine Economic Restructuring as Class and Spatial Polarization -- Overall Effects of Leading Industries -- Social Geography -- Consumption -- Casual and Informal Labor Markets -- Race and Nationality in the Labor Market -- IN CONCLUSION -- Ten A New Urban Regime? -- Epilogue -- The Global City Model -- The Financial Order -- The Producer Services -- Social and spatial polarization.
ISBN 9781400847488 (electronic bk.)
1400847486 (electronic bk.)
1400847486
0691070636
9780691070636

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