Cities in a World Economy

Saskia Sassen is the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and co-chair of The Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University (www.saskiasassen.com). She is the author of Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages (2008), A Sociology of Globalization (2007), and The Global City (1991), and editor of Deciphering the Global: Its Spaces, Scales and Subjects (2007). Her books have been translated into 22 languages. She is the editor of the volume on urban sustainability in the new 14-volume Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (2006), for which she coordinated a network of researchers and activists in 30 countries.

Place and Production in the Global Economy
The Urban Impact of Economic Globalization
New Inequalities among Cities
The New Urban Economy
The Intersection of Global Processes and Place
Issues and Case Studies in the New Urban Economy
The New Inequalities within Cities
A New Geography of Centres and Margins
Summary and Implications