Global Networks, Linked Cities - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415931622 ISBN 13: 9780415931625

Publisher: Routledge, 2002

Synopsis

First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Review

Reimagining cities as nodes of an immense network of commercial and political transactions, sociologist Saskia Sassen has transformed Information Age geography. Global Networks, Linked Cities collects research, theory, and case studies examining cities in this context by Sassen and 19 other social scientists, focusing particularly on the recent explosive growth in areas formerly--now inaccurately--called the Third World.

The jargon in Global Networks, Linked Cities can be fairly dense and the style arid, but the essays reward patient readers with insight into the interlinked worlds of finance, geography, communications, and geopolitics. Most of the pieces look closely at individual urban regions: Shanghai, Buenos Aires, and, interestingly, Beirut. All have much to tell us about the organic urban development coevolving with globalized commerce and communications, says editor Sassen. As barriers to free information flow erode, we see mergers between political, business, and academic entities.Global Networks, Linked Cities shows us how this is happening and how to think about what's coming next. --Rob Lightner

About the Author

Saskia Sassen, Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago, is a leading expert on cities and globalizaiton. She has published numerous books, including The Global City (1991, 2000) Cities in a World Economy (1994), Globalization and its Discontents (1998), Losing Control? (1996), Guests and Aliens (1999), and The Mobility of Labor and Capital (1988).

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0415931622
• ISBN 13: 9780415931625
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 376
• Editor: Sassen Saskia