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Saskia Sassen

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Saskia Sassen

Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology, Emeritus, Columbia University, London School of Economics

Saskia Sassen is the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and Co-Chairs The Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University. Her recent books are Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages (Princeton University Press 2008), A Sociology of Globalization(W.W.Norton 2007), and the 4th fully updated edition of Cities in a World Economy (Sage 2011). The Global City came out in a new fully updated edition in 2001.  Her books are translated into twenty-one languages. She is currently working on When Territory Exits Existing Frameworks (Under contract with Harvard University Press). She contributes regularly to OpenDemocracy and The Huffington Post.

 

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Saskia's Recent Activity

Publication January 28, 2020 We Are Not Ready for Climate Change There is a whole new history in the making: How will cities address the overwhelming surge in the recognition of climate change? Saskia Sassen Climate Change & Resilience
Article January 25, 2017 Expert Voices 2017: America's Urban Infrastructure In his inauguration speech, President Trump characterized America's infrastructure as having “fallen into disrepair and decay” and promised to “build new roads, and highways, and bridges, and airports, and tunnels, and railways.” Similarly, over the course of the presidential campaign, Trump vowed to develop "the next generation" of American infrastructure and "send new skyscrapers soaring." We asked more than a dozen urban experts: In your view, what should the United States do about urban infrastructure? Timothy J. Bartik Eugénie L. Birch Angela Glover Blackwell Paul C. Brophy Gilles Duranton Erick Guerra John Landis Howard Neukrug Megan Ryerson Saskia Sassen Frederick Steiner Sarah Rosen Wartell Susan Wachter Richard Voith Mark Zandi Urban Development
Article January 25, 2016 Expert Voices 2016: Urban Policy and the Presidential Election With all eyes focused on the presidential race, now is the time to discuss the great challenges that our nation faces. The candidates have a unique opportunity to address the issues that affect the lives of their fellow Americans, but what are those issues and how should they think about them? What major urban policy issues should the candidates address? We posed this question to our Penn IUR Faculty Fellows and Scholars. In the following eleven essays, they explore the urban policies that deserve the candidates' attention. Raphael Bostic Richard Florida Mark Alan Hughes John Jackson, Jr. Laura Perna Wendell Pritchett Megan Ryerson Saskia Sassen Anchor Institutions

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