| Description |
vii, 368 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: Locating cities on global circuits / Saskia Sassen -- Part I: The urban architecture of global networks -- Architecture of global networking technologies / D. Linda García -- Communication grids: cities and infrastructure / Stephen Graham -- Firms and their global service networks / Peter J. Taylor, D.R.F. Walker, J.V. Beaverstock -- Hierarchies of dominance among world cities: a network approach / David Smith, Michael Timberlake -- Part II: Cross-border regions -- Mexico: the making of a global city / Christof Parnreiter -- Hormuz corridor: building a cross-border region between Iran and the United Arab Emirates / Ali Parsa, Ramin Keivani -- São Paulo: articulating a cross-border region / Sueli Ramos Schiffer -- Beirut: building regional circuits / Eric Huybrechts -- Part III: Network nodes -- Hong Kong: global capital exchange / David R. Meyer -- Shanghai: reconnecting to the global economy / Felicity Rose Gu, Zilai Tang -- Buenos Aires: sociospacial impacts of the development of global city functions / Pablo Ciccolella, Iliana Mignaqui -- Local networks: digital city Amsterdam / Patrice Riemens, Geert Lovink |
| Summary |
In this collection of essays, Sassen and a distinguished group of contributors focus on two key issues. First, they look at how information flows have bound global cities together in networks, creating a global city web whose constituent cities become "global" through the networks they participate in. Second, they investigate emerging global cities in the developing world-Sao Paulo, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Mexico City, Beirut, the Dubai-Iran corridor, and Buenos Aires |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Computer networks -- Economic aspects.
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Business enterprises -- Computer networks -- Case studies.
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Globalization -- Case studies.
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Information technology -- Economic aspects -- Case studies.
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Computers and civilization -- Case studies.
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Urban economics -- Case studies.
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies.
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| Author |
Sassen, Saskia.
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| LC no. |
2001041831 |
| ISBN |
0415931622 |
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0415931630 |
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