World CityISBN: 978-0-7456-4059-4
Hardcover
272 pages
September 2007, Polity
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Phil Hubbard, Area book review forum
"A brave and worthwhile attempt at creating a 'public
geography', an effort to take insights developed during a career in
our discipline to wider audiences. The book is written in a
wonderfully open and accessible manner, using language that is
neither wilfully exclusionary nor obscure."
Sarah Holloway, Phil Hubbard, Heike Jons, Liz Mavroudi and
Pat Noxolo, Area book review forum
"An excellent theoretical treatment of London's entanglement in
a web of economic, political, social, cultural, and power
relations, and it forms the basis for a powerful political
manifesto that confronts traditional notions of "place"-based
policies and also challenges world cities to take responsibility
bestowed upon them through their privileged position in the
geometry of power and develop policies that go beyond the
administrative boundaries that traditionally defined place."
Journal of Regional Science
"A fascinating insight into London and the politics of place,
highlighting not only the social and economic geographies which
result but also the questions of moral responsibility world city
status implies."
New Zealand Geographer
"A fascinating read. Through her distinctive analytical lens,
Massey has produced a masterpiece on the politics of what it means
to be a 'world city'."
Economic Geography Research Group
"World City is well worth pondering, beyond even the
question of equity or, more succinctly, of growth with social
justice. The time has come for a new politics of development based
on a logic other than the logic of markets and unlimited
accumulation, in short, for a human and Earth-centred development
in which the quality of life and of the Earth's eco-systems move to
centre stage."
John Friedmann, Urban Studies
"There are more than seven million Londoners now, and more to
come. Massey's work suggests that there is also more than one
London."
Fran Tonkiss, British Journal of Sociology
"An important intervention into the rich literature on
globalization and cities, a dimension of global social relations to
which International Relations scholars would do well to pay much
greater attention."
International Studies Review
"Written in an accessible style, free of academic jargon ... a
text that students should read."
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