She summarizes the work of her career in more of a 'textbook' format than her academic writing. Sassen has extensively updated the book to include both new 'nodes' in her world cities project, such as Istanbul, and to cover some of the effects of the global financial crisis. discusses in Chapter 7 a unique perspective on the highly gendered and unequal nature of the global city, and how it forces the underprivileged to live a dangerous and unpredictable life on global survival circuits.strikes an ideal balance between maintaining academic rigor and employing new and innovative concepts.examines the impact of global processes on the social structure of cities, increasing students′ world awareness.takes a multidisciplinary approach to urban sociology, supported by global examples.presents three new case studies in Chapter 5: (1) comparing Shanghai and Hong Kong, (2) the Gulf States, and (3) Istanbul. new section in Chapter 4 on comparing global cities.new section in chapter 3 on global migrations.new chapter (8) analysing the challenges and vulnerabilities facing major cities in terms of three major challenges: (1) the environment, (2) global financial crisis, and (3) asymmetric war.These developments give new meaning to such fixtures of urban sociology as the centrality of place and the importance of geography in our social world. 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.
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