A global city, also called a power city, world city, alpha city or world center, is a city which is a. Saskia sassen is the leading urban theorist of the global world. The huge postcredit crunch buying up of urban buildings by corporations has significant implications for equity, democracy and rights. Norton 2007, and the 4th fully updated edition of cities in a world economy sage 2011. Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools. Saskia sassen born in the hague, january 5, 1949 is a dutchamerican sociologist noted for her analyses of globalization and international human migration. The disadvantaged and excluded can gain presence in such global cities in a way they cannot in neat, homogenous provincial cities. Saskia sassen on how the powerless can hack global cities. Lynd professor of sociology at columbia university and centennial visiting professor at the london school of economics. New york, london, tokyo 1991 has shaped the concepts and methods that other theorists have used to analyze the role of cities and their networks in the contemporary world. Global affairs, published a ranking of global cities, based on consultation with saskia sassen, witold rybczynski, and others.
Here are several prior posts that intersect with her work. The concept comes from geography and urban studies and rests on the idea that globalization can be understood as largely created, facilitated, and enacted in strategic geographic locales according to a hierarchy of importance to the operation of the global system of finance and trade. A conversation with author saskia sassen, who coined the term global city. New york, london, tokyo saskia sassen, princetonnew jersey. In 1991, saskia sassen, a sociologist, wrote her most famous work, the global city. What distinguishes sassens theoretical framework is the emphasis on the formation of crossborder dynamics through which these cities and the growing number of other global cities begin to form strategic transnational networks. London, and tokyo became command centers for the global economy and in the. Saskia sassen literally wrote the book on global cities back in 2001. In 1991, saskia sassen, a sociologist, wrote her most famous work, the. Saskia sassen sees new york, london, and tokyo as being in an. She gave a definition that has long struck with me. Globalization and the city global cities and the new world.
The term global city, is, more often than not, attributed to saskia sassen, a professor of sociology at columbia university, as a result of her 1991 work the global city. Insofar as my economic analysis of the global city recovers the broad array of jobs. It argued that large, technologically advanced urban areas defined. Global city a global city is a city generally considered to be an important node in the global economic system. It argued that large, technologically advanced urban areas defined the modern world. Start studying saskia sassen impact of the new technologies and globalization on cities. The global city saskia sassen understanding society. In so doing the meaning of capital fixity is partly. This classic work chronicles how new york, london, and tokyo became command centers for the global economy and in the process underwent a series of massive and parallel changes. In short form, in the age of globalization, the activities of production are scattered on a global basis. And third is the growth of a large marginalized population that has a very hard time earning a living in the marketplace defined by these highend. New york, london, tokyo, in which she states that global cities first appeared in 1973, with the advent of postindustrial cities. Saskia sassen literally wrote the book on global cities back in 2001 though her global cities work dates back well over a decade prior to that book.
I locate the emergence of global cities in this context and against this range of instantiations of. Lynd professor of sociology and cochairs the committee on global thought, columbia university. Saskia sassen born january 5, 1947 is a dutch american sociologist noted for her analyses of globalization and international human migration. A global city, also called a power city, world city, alpha city or world center, is a city which is a primary node in the global economic network. Territory, authority and rights in a global digital age piinccton university press 2005. The concept comes from geography and urban studies, and the idea that globalization is created, facilitated, and enacted in strategic geographic locales according to a hierarchy of importance to the operation of the global system of finance and trade.
Saskia sassen is the ralph lewis professor of sociology at the university of chicago, and centennial visiting professor at the london school of economics. From medieval to global assemblages princeton university press 2008, a sociology of globalizationw. Who owns our cities and why this urban takeover should. The geography of business global cities revisited schumpeter. In this short filmed interview, first in a series produced during the conference decoding asian urbanism held at the south asian institute. World city, meaning a city heavily involved in global trade, appeared in the may 1886 description of.