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Sara Miller McCune founded SAGE Publishing in 1965 to support the dissemination of Urban Studies is published in association with Urban Studies Journal Limited. The journal is also committed to developing Social Media as the means of informing debates about the contemporary urban condition. In addition to research articles, Urban Studies publishes peer-reviewedĬritical commentaries, policy reviews, book reviews besides a regular series of Special Issues. We welcome all original submissions that further our understanding of the urban condition and the rapid changes taking place in cities and regions across the globe, whether from an empirical, theoretical, or a policy perspective. The Editors aim to maintain and extend the role of Urban Studies as the journal of choice for those working on the cutting edge of academic research about cities. Since its inception in 1964, the journal has remained at the forefront of intellectual and policy debates on the city, and has hosted ground-breaking contributions from across the full range Urban Studies is the leading international journal for urban scholarship. Evidence on occupational change in Randstad Holland is presented to support this argument. Professionalisaton appears to be dominant. It is argued that while these claims may hold true for New York and Los Angeles, possibly because of their very high levels of immigration and the creation of large numbers of low skilled and low paid jobs, her attempt to extend the thesis to all global cities is problematic. Growing polarisation of the occupational and income structures whereby there is absolute growth at both the top and bottom ends of the distribution and a decline in the middle of the distribution. It focuses on the claims made by Sassen that the processes of economic change in such cities are leading to a
This paper examines the debate over social polarisation in global cities. 3, SPECIAL ISSUE: GLOBALISATION, WORLD CITIES AND THE RANDSTAD Journal article Social Polarisation in Global Cities: Theory and Evidence
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