the global city: new york, london, tokyo pdf torrent

In New York and London, individuals in high-income occupations are concentrating in the city centre, while low-income occupations are pushed to urban peripheries. Segregation was highest in New York and lowest in Tokyo. Our analysis shows an increase in the share of high-income occupations, accompanied by a fall in low-income occupations in all three cities, providing strong evidence for a consistent trend of professionalization of the workforce. Here, using data for New York City, London and Tokyo, we reframe and answer this question for recent decades. 'A multi-disciplinary tour de force that should be read not only by regional economists but also by urban geographers, sociologists, and planners.Based on data from the 1980s, Sassen’s influential book ‘The Global City’ interrogated how changes in the occupational structure affect socio-economic residential segregation in global cities.

It incorporates a herculean research effort.'-Susan Fainstein, Journal of the American Planning Association

are sobering.'-Rudolf Klein, Times Literary Supplement 'The most detailed and sophisticated anatomy yet published of the functioning of the new producer services sector in the global economy.'-Mark Levine, Urban Affairs Quarterly 'A landmark study in the political economy of cities.'-Anthony King, Newsline Sassen shows how dangerously city life has been affected by the influx of employees of the multinational firms which move into major cities and virtually colonize them, riving even greater wedges between the rich and poor.'- The Observer ' high-powered and at times horrific book. A systematic detailed analysis of the three largest urban economies in the advanced world.'-Peter Hall, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research

'This is brilliant stuff, both in its broadness of sociological scope and its voluminous collection of data from a vast number of sources in the three cities.'-Scott Lash, The Times Higher Education Supplement

The global city: new york, london, tokyo pdf torrent