Global City 1
Global City
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File Contemporary-World-Group-2-Presentation-Content.pdf Global-
Cities.pdf The-Global-City.pdf
Unit/Module Global Population and Mobility
Week Week 7
GLOBAL CITY
AGENDA
➤ Identify the attributes of a global city
➤ Analyze how cities serve as engines of globalization
➤ In what ways are these cities global and to what extent are they global?
Definition of Global City
-coined by Saskia Sassen
Global City as Spatial Globalization
Indicators for Globality:
-Economic Power (determines which cities are global; stock market)
-Economic Opportunities (make it attractive to talents across the world)
-Economic Competitiveness (market size, purchasing power of citizens, size of
the middle class, and potential for growth)
-Center of Authority (State power; Washington D.C.: White House)
-Political influence (powerful political hubs exert influence on their own countries
as well as on international affairs. examples: Jakarta, Indonesia, the main
headquarters of ASEAN; UN in New York, E.U. in Brussels)
-Center of higher learning and culture (a city’s intellectual influence; New York
Times in New York, Harvard University, etc)
Examples of Global Cities
