This is a period of massive changes for cities and communities. Economic globalization and
the ascendance of information technologies are reconfiguring the spatial organization of the …

The reorganization of global space that has been set in motion over the past quarter century
by processes of international economic change has had some important consequences for …

As theoretical and empirical research on 'globalization'balloons, the concept of globalization
has become subject to more critical scrutiny from the perspectives of both advocates and …

As we approach the twenty-first century, a world-wide mosaic of large city-regions seems to
be overriding (though is not effacing entirely) an earlier core-periphery system of spatial …

The article examines several major structural trends contributing to the shift from the
Keynesian routinized city to the strategic city that begins to emerge in the 1980s. Among the …

Cities in a World Economy, Fifth Edition examines the emergence of global cities as a new
social formation. As sites of rapid and widespread developments in the areas of finance …

Economic globalization and telecommunications have contributed to produce a spatiality for
the urban which pivots on de-territorialized cross-border networks and territorial locations …

In this selection, from Arie Graafland and Deborah Hauptmann, eds., Cities in Transition
(2001), sociologist Saskia Sassen, who originally coined the term “global city,” describes …

Contesting the widespread notion in the 1980s that place no longer mattered to highly
digitized economic sectors turned out to be the first step towards conceptualizing the Global …

APoint of Departure Human beings have always wrought destruction in their natural
environments. Until the twentieth century, however, this damage was either limited and local …