Geographies of Extraction : How Global Trade Has Impacted Urban Inequality

Geographies of Extraction: How Global Trade Has Impacted Urban Inequality - Architizer
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“Right now, the dominant geographies are geographies of extraction; they’re geographies of power,” says Saskia Sassen in an interview with Ibai Rigby of urbanNext at the “Decoding Asian Urbanism” conference at Harvard University. Sassen, a professor of sociology at Columbia University and a member of its Committee on Global Thought, sees the development of new global geographies whose boundaries are dictated not by physical borders, but rather by financial markets.

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