![]() You know, it was really changing, just beginning. When was the first time you were in Tokyo? ![]() So, I actually wanted to, based on your conversation today your lecture primarily about New York City and the global city, I wanted to situate us in Tokyo where we’re sitting currently. Well, Saskia Sassen, thank you very much for joining us today, for being the first guest on FreshEd live. ![]() Today’s show was recorded at Musashi University during the Third Japanese Political Economy Workshop organized by Nobuharu Yokokawa.Ĭitation: Sassen, Saskia, interview with Will Brehm, FreshEd, 131, podcast audio, October 22, 2018. And yet, despite this expulsion by intermediaries, new forms of inclusion were created. This left a peculiar reality for the physical buildings in the city.Īs a result, many people who didn’t work in intermediary services were expelled from those parts of the city. In New York City, financial services took over lower Manhattan. Instead of seeing place as no longer necessary in the digital economy, she saw certain cities as physical sites that became more important than ever in the global economy.įor Sassen, intermediaries concentrated in certain parts of the city and relied on high-level knowledge, like algorithmic mathematics. ![]() What she focused on was the rise of intermediary services that allowed corporations to operate globally. ![]() In 1991, she published the now classic book called The Global City where she chronicled how New York, London, and Tokyo became the centers in the new digital economy. Saskia Sassen is a professor at Columbia University. To celebrate, we are going to air our first ever FreshEd Live event where Saskia Sassen joined me for a conversation about her life and work. Today marks the 3rd anniversary of FreshEd. ![]()
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