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Rebuilding the Global City: Economy, Ethnicity and Space

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Re-Presenting the City

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A walk through almost any of today’s large modern cities in Western Europe or the USA leaves one with the impression that each contains many cities: the corporate city of high-rise office buildings, the old dying industrial city, the immigrant city. A space of power; a space of labor and machines; a Third World space. Are they indeed three separate cities, each belonging to a different historico/geographic phase? Or do they presuppose each other — the existence of one, a condition for the other? And if so, what is the nature of the dynamic that connects them?

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  1. Saskia Sassen
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    Anthony D. King

  2. Bristol, USA

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Sassen, S. (1996). Rebuilding the Global City: Economy, Ethnicity and Space. In: King, A.D. (eds) Re-Presenting the City. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24439-3_2

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