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Cities in a World Economy examines the emergence of global cities as a new social formation. As sites of rapid and widespread developments in the areas of finance, information and people, global cities lie at the core of the major processes of globalization. The book features a cross-disciplinary approach to urban sociology using global examples, and discusses the impact of global processes on the social structure of cities. The Fifth Edition reflects the most current data available and explores recent debates such as the role of cities in mitigating environmental problems, the global refugee crisis, Brexit, and the rise of Donald Trump in the United States.
Global Cities and Global Survival Circuits
Global Cities and Global Survival Circuits
Although this entire book is an effort to recover the meaning of place and of multiple diverse social groups in constituting globalization, it is important to emphasize that this is not the usual focus in accounts about the global economy. Key concepts in the dominant account—global information economy, instant communication, Thomas Friedman’s well known adage “the world is flat”—all suggest that place no longer matters and that the only type of worker that matters is the highly educated professional. This understanding of the global economy privileges the capability for global transmission over the material structures and work processes necessary for such transmission. In this type of account, immigrant workers belong to older, backward ...
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