The Global City: Strategic Site/New Frontier

By Saskia Sassen. 2000

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The master images in the currently dominant account of economic globalisation emphasize hypermobility, global communications and the neutralization of place and distance. There is a tendency to take the existence of a global economic system as a given, a function of the power of transnational corporations and global communications.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science, Urban Studies

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. M. Hoyler
2. Peter J. Taylor
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4. David R. F. Walker
5. Antti Vasanen
6. Ben Derudder
7. S. Krätke
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In Sociology and Political Science

1. M. Hoyler
2. David R. F. Walker
3. Gilda Catalano
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2. David R. F. Walker
3. Gilda Catalano
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5. Antti Vasanen
6. Ben Derudder
7. S. Krätke
8. A. Rodríguez‐Pose

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• Diversity and power in the world city network (2002, result): “…is consistent with the pioneering work of both John Friedmann (in which the top world cities are identified in both core and semi-peripheral regions; Friedmann, 1986, Table 1) and Sassen (2000, 49) for whom ‘the worldwide grid of global cities … cuts across … the old North-South divide’.”