Global networks : linked cities / / edited by Saskia Sassen

• Pubblicazione: Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2016
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (377 p.)
• Disciplina: 303.4834
• Soggetto topico: Urban economics; Globalization; Computers and civilization; Information technology - Economic aspects; Business enterprises - Computer networks
• Altri autori: SassenSaskia
• Note generali: First published 2002 by Routledge.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction. Locating Cities on Global Circuits; PART I THE URBAN ARCHITECTURE OF GLOBAL NETWORKS; 1. The Architecture of Global Networking Technologies; 2. Communication Grids: Cities and Infrastructure; 3. Firms and Their Global Service Networks; 4. Hierarchies of Dominance among World Cities: A Network Approach; PART II CROSS-BORDER REGIONS; 5. Mexico: The Making of a Global City; 6. The Hormuz Corridor: Building a Cross-Border Region between Iran and the United Arab Emirates; 7. São Paulo: Articulating a Cross-Border Region ; 8. Beirut: Building Regional CircuitsPART III NETWORK NODES; 9. Hong Kong: Global Capital Exchange; 10. Shanghai: Reconnecting to the Global Economy; 11. Buenos Aires: Sociospatial Impacts of the Development of Global City Functions; 12. Local Networks: Digital City Amsterdam; Notes on the Contributors; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: In her pioneering book The Global City, Saskia Sassen argued that certain cities in the postindustrial world have become central nodes in the new service economy, strategic sites for the acceleration of capital and information flows as well as spaces of increasing socio-economic polarization. One effect has been that such cities have gained in importance and power relative to nation-states. In this new collection of essays, Sassen and a distinguished group of contributors expand on the author's earlier work in a number of important ways, focusing on two key issues. First, they look at how information flows have bound global cities together in networks, creating a global city web whose constituent cities become global through the networks they participate in. Second, they investigate emerging global cities in the developing world-Sao Paulo, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Mexico City, Beirut, the Dubai-Iran corridor, and Buenos Aires. They show how these globalizing zones are not only replicating many features of the top tier of global cities, but are also generating new socio-economic patterns as well. These new patterns of development promise to lead to significant changes in the structure of the global economy, as more and more cities worldwide are integrated into globalization's circuitry. Includes contributions from:Linda Garcia, Patrice Riemens, Geert Lovink, Peter Taylor, David Smith, Michael Timberlake, Stephen Graham, Sueli Schiffer Ramos, Christoff Parnreiter, Felicity Gu, David Meyer, Pablo Ciccolella, Iliana Mignaqui, Eric Huybrechts, Ali Parsa. Also includes six maps.
• Titolo autorizzato: Global networks
• ISBN: 1-134-95496-4; 1-315-53880-6; 1-134-95489-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910966286803321
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