Saskia Sassen is a Dutch-American sociologist known for developing the concept of the global city in her 1991 book The Global City, which examined New York, London, and Tokyo as a new kind of urban node produced by the globalization of economic activity. She argued that even as production and routine economic functions dispersed around the world, the specialized financial, legal, and business services needed to coordinate that dispersed activity became concentrated in a small number of cities, giving those cities a strategic command function in the global economy disproportionate to their share of overall economic output. Sassen's work reframed urban sociology around the city's position within global economic networks and shaped subsequent research on globalization, migration, and the changing geography of state power.
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Birth DateSourced to the subject's own account Birth YearSourced to the subject's own account BirthplaceSourced to the subject's own account Nationality / CultureSourced to the subject's own account Defining ContributionSourced to the subject's own accountCoined and popularized the concept of the global city, describing how globalization concentrates the command and financial functions of the world economy in a small number of major cities. 1 Notable WorkSourced to the subject's own accountThe Global City: New York, London, Tokyo (1991) 1 Saskia Sassen
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born January 5, 1947
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Sassen was born in The Hague, Netherlands in 1947.
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Saskia Sassen (born January 5, 1947) is a Dutch-American sociologist
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The term global city was coined and popularized by Sassen in her 1991 work The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo.
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She is a professor of sociology at Columbia University in New York City, and the London School of Economics.
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She also received a master's degree in philosophy from the University of Poitiers in 1974. == Academic posts == After being a post-doctoral fellow at the Center for International Affairs at Harvard University, Sassen held various academic positions in and outside the US, such as the Ralph Lewis Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago.
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The term global city was popularized by sociologist Saskia Sassen in her 1991 book, The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo.
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