I just read a piece by U of Chicago Sociologist Saskia Sassen (The Global City: Introducing a Concept - The Brown Journal of World Affairs: Vol 11 Issue 2, 2005). She's conceptualizing global cities, as opposed to world cities, as places where the practices and processes of globalization are tied to space and place. This is great for me, for whom ( Read more... )

I love this sort of interactive presentation of sociological data. I think it will make people more likely to engage, kind of in the way that putting a scratch-off coating over a code on a piece of contest mail does ( Read more... )