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Title: Global Networks, Linked Cities by Saskia Sassen ISBN: 0-415-93163-0 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: 01 March, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $28.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)
Rating: 4
Summary: Outsourcing, in a broader context
Comment: With the ever decreasing fall in the cost of communication, both digital and analog, this book speculates that a new global phenomenon may be emerging. A few years ago, during the height of the dot com boom, others suggested that the Web might give rise to the disaggregation of cities or cultural hubs, because cheap communications might let creative individuals work from virtually anywhere with a fast bandwidth connection to the Internet.
But as many major cities in developing countries achieve this thick connection, another possibility emerges, as suggested by this book. It is now possible for some of these cities to parlay this connection and a well educated workforce into a globally prominent role. In part by assuming some of the functionality hitherto almost exclusively taken by first world cities. Think for example on how Silicon Valley is outsourcing some of its work to Mumbai or Bangalore.
The book's suggestions of future global cities is intriguing. Though when they suggest this of Hong Kong, one might argue that it is already a global city by any reasonable measure of how plugged in it is into the global economy.
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Title: The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo. by Saskia Sassen ISBN: 0691070636 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Global City-Regions: Trends, Theory, Policy by Allen J. Scott ISBN: 0199252300 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: June, 2002 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Splintering Urbanism: Networked Infrastructures, Technological Mobilities and the Urban Condition by Stephen Graham, Simon Marvin ISBN: 0415189659 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: 01 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $43.95 |
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Title: Spaces of Capital: Towards a Critical Geography by David Harvey ISBN: 0415932416 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: November, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Cybercities Reader (Routledge Urban Reader Series) by Stephen Graham ISBN: 0415279569 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: January, 2004 List Price(USD): $45.95 |
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