The Global City Reviews

Author: Saskia Sassen
Edition: 2
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0691070636
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The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo.

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.The Global City review. What distinguishes Sassen's theoretical framework is the emphasis on the formation of cross-border dynamics through which these cities and the growing number of other global cities begin to form strategic transnational networksRead full reviews of Dancing Communities: Performance, Difference and Connection in the Global City.

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Dancing Communities: Performance, Difference and Connection in the Global City: Brian Singleton, Janelle Reinelt, Judith Hamera

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Winner of the Book of the Year Award from the Ethnography Division of the National Communication Association 2008! Dancing Communities is a landmark volume in dance scholarship, and examines performances that create urban communities by blurring, or reinforcing, complex cultural and ethnic boundaries. It argues that amateur and concert dance practices are laboratories for examining the myriad complex intersections of gender, sexuality, class, ethnicity and culture. In the five sites examined here, dance creates small and generative worlds: sometimes havens, sometimes hauntopias. The everyday l

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Terrorism, Risk and the Global City: Towards Urban Resilience: Jon Coaffee

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The Global City Reviews

What distinguishes Sassen's theoretical framework is the emphasis on the formation of cross-border dynamics through which these cities and the growing number of other global cities begin to form strategic transnational networks. All the core data in this new edition have been updated, while the preface and epilogue discuss the relevant trends in globalization since the book originally came out in 1991.