In her classic book The Global City, Saskia Sassen tells how New York, London, and Tokyo became command centers of the emerging global economy and, in the process, underwent massive and parallel changes. The book reorients the way we think about how cities shape and are shaped by globalization and provides lessons for the future.

Saskia Sassen is the Robert S. Lynd Professor Emerita of Sociology at Columbia University. Her books include Territory, Authority, Rights (Princeton) and A Sociology of Globalization.