What determines the flow of labor and capital in this new global information economy? Who has the capacity to coordinate this new system, to create some measure of order? What happens to territoriality and sovereignty, two fundamental principles of the modern state? And who gains rights and who lose[...]

In this empirical study, Saskia Sassen offers a new understanding of the processes of international migration. Focusing on immigration into the US from 1960 to 1985 and the part played by American economic activities abroad, as well as foreign investment in the US, she examines the various ways in w[...]

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. What distinguishes Sassen's theoretical framework is the emphasis on the formation of cross-border dynamics through which [...]

The Fourth Edition of Cities in a World Economy shows how certain characteristics of our turn-of-the-millennium flows of money, information and people have led to the emergence of a new social formation: global cities. These developments give new meaning to such fixtures of urban sociology as the ce[...]

Mer än halva mänskligheten bor nu i städer. Och det är inte i nord som den största tillväxten av stadsbefolkningar sker, utan i syd. Föreställningen om syd som ruralt och jordbruksdominerat, i motsats nord som antas vara urbant och industriellt, förefaller därmed inte längre vara giltig. [...]