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In her classic book The Global City, Saskia Sassen tells how New York, London, and Tokyo became command centers of the emerging global economy and, in the process, underwent massive and parallel changes. The book reorients the way we think about how cities shape and are shaped by globalization and provides lessons for the future.
Price: $24.95
Pages: 480
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Imprint: Princeton University Press
Series: Princeton Classics
Publication Date:
09 September 2025
ISBN: 9780691264721
Format: Paperback
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"This is brilliant stuff, both in its broadness of sociological scope and its voluminous collection of data from a vast number of sources in the three cities."---Scott Lash, Times Higher Education Supplement
Saskia Sassen is the Robert S. Lynd Professor Emerita of Sociology at Columbia University. Her books include Territory, Authority, Rights (Princeton) and A Sociology of Globalization.