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AH110 - Global Cities

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This section offers several perspectives on the idea of the "global city." This first excerpt frames Saskia Sassen's work and is followed by a direct excerpt from Sassen. "Saskia Sassen’s work on global cities (2001) has been highly influential in urban studies. From the 1980s onward, we have seen the rise of a global system of production in which the various parts of the production process are spread over the globe, with much of the primary production process located in countries with cheap labor (see Chapter 5). This global system entails both the spatial dispersal of economic production and global integration. This has created a new strategic role for cities. Besides their long-standing role as centers for international trade and banking, cities like New York, London and Tokyo have also become command points in the organization of the world economy and key locations for finance and business producer services, which have replaced (and displaced) manufacturing as the leading economic

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