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    The Global City

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    This document discusses global cities and why they are important to study globalization. It makes two key points: 1) Globalization is spatial as it happens in physical spaces like cities through foreign investment and the movement of people, and 2) Cities are sites and mediums of globalization as places like Los Angeles produce media for global consumption and companies like Sony coordinate operations across the world from headquarters in cities. The document also defines global cities as urban centers that enjoy significant global advantages and serve as hubs within the global economic system. Examples of global cities mentioned are New York, London, Paris, Tokyo, and others.

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    The Global City

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    This document discusses global cities and why they are important to study globalization. It makes two key points: 1) Globalization is spatial as it happens in physical spaces like cities through foreign investment and the movement of people, and 2) Cities are sites and mediums of globalization as places like Los Angeles produce media for global consumption and companies like Sony coordinate operations across the world from headquarters in cities. The document also defines global cities as urban centers that enjoy significant global advantages and serve as hubs within the global economic system. Examples of global cities mentioned are New York, London, Paris, Tokyo, and others.

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    This document discusses global cities and why they are important to study globalization. It makes two key points: 1) Globalization is spatial as it happens in physical spaces like cities through foreign investment and the movement of people, and 2) Cities are sites and mediums of globalization as places like Los Angeles produce media for global consumption and companies like Sony coordinate operations across the world from headquarters in cities. The document also defines global cities as urban centers that enjoy significant global advantages and serve as hubs within the global economic system. Examples of global cities mentioned are New York, London, Paris, Tokyo, and others.

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    The Global City

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    This document discusses global cities and why they are important to study globalization. It makes two key points: 1) Globalization is spatial as it happens in physical spaces like cities through foreign investment and the movement of people, and 2) Cities are sites and mediums of globalization as places like Los Angeles produce media for global consumption and companies like Sony coordinate operations across the world from headquarters in cities. The document also defines global cities as urban centers that enjoy significant global advantages and serve as hubs within the global economic system. Examples of global cities mentioned are New York, London, Paris, Tokyo, and others.

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    Why Study Global Cities?

    So far, much of the analysis of globalization in previous lessons, has looked at how

    internationalism shaped modern world politics. We also examined cultural movements like K-

    pop, and how they spread through media like the internet. What this lesson will emphasize,

    however, is that globalization is spatial. This statement means two things.

    First, globalization is spatial since it happens in physical spaces. You can see it when

    foreign investments and capital move through a city, and when organizations assemble high

    rises. Individuals who are working in these organizations or Filipinos working abroad-begin to

    buy or lease skyscraper apartment suite units and better homes. As every one of these occasions

    occur, increasingly destitute individuals are driven out of city centers to clear a path for the

    new developments.

    Second, globalization is spatial because what makes it move is the fact that it is based

    in places. Los Angeles, the home of Hollywood, is where movies are made for global

    consumption. The main headquarters of Sony is in Tokyo, and from there, the company

    coordinates the sales of its various electronics goods to branches across the world. In other

    words, cities act on globalization and globalization acts on cities. They are the sites as well as

    the mediums of globalization. Just as the internet enables and shapes global forces, so too do

    cities.

    In the years to come, more and more people will experience globalization through

    cities. In 1950, only 30 percent of the world lived in urban areas. By 2014, that number

    increased to 54 percent. And by 2050, it is expected to reach 66 percent. This lesson studies

    globalization through the living environment of a rapidly increasing number of people.


    Defining the Global City

    Global city, an urban focus that appreciates noteworthy upper hands and that fills in as

    a center point inside a globalized financial framework. The term has its roots in research on

    urban communities completed amid the 1980s, which analyzed the regular qualities of the

    world's most imperative urban communities. Nonetheless, with expanded consideration being

    paid to procedures of globalization amid ensuing years, these world urban areas came to be

    known as worldwide urban communities. Connected with globalization was the possibility of

    spatial redesign and the speculation that urban communities were getting to be key loci inside

    worldwide systems of creation, money, and media communications. In a few details of the

    worldwide city proposal, at that point, such urban communities are the building squares of

    globalization. At the same time, these urban communities were winding up recently favored

    destinations of nearby legislative issues inside the setting of a more extensive task to

    reconfigure state foundations.

    Urban areas are focuses of advancement and organizations. They depict the financial,

    social, and political condition of the nation and its kin. Urban communities are sorted

    contrastingly relying upon the job they play on the worldwide scene. Even though the city of

    Tokyo is the biggest on the planet with a populace of around 38,000,000, it is viewed as an

    Alpha + city, one dimension underneath the urban communities of New York and London

    which are viewed as Alpha ++ urban communities. Other Alpha + urban areas incorporate

    Shanghai, Tokyo, Dubai, Singapore, Hong Kong, Paris, and Beijing. To be viewed as a

    worldwide city, an urban focus must demonstrate it appreciates a critical worldwide favorable

    position over different urban communities and fills in as a center point inside the world

    monetary framework. At first, worldwide urban communities were positioned relying upon
    their size. Today, a few different factors other than the measure of the city are being considered.

    Amsterdam, Houston, Mexico City, Paris, São Paulo and Zurich have all become worldwide

    urban areas. These urban areas have a few comparable attributes including Home to a few

    money related specialist co-ops and foundations, base camp to huge multinationals, overwhelm

    the exchange and economy of their nations and are a noteworthy center point for air, land and

    ocean transport. They are likewise focus of advancement, brag of all-around created

    framework, substantial populace of utilized individuals and go about as the focuses of

    correspondence of worldwide news.

    As indicated by the A.T. Kearney's Worldwide Urban communities Record 2017, New

    York outflanked London as the world's best-performing city while the last positioned second.

    Paris, Tokyo and Hong Kong pursued individually. The city of San Francisco topped the

    Worldwide Urban communities Standpoint List in front of New York, Paris, London, and

    Boston individually. New York was positioned the best city for business exercises, and human

    capital. Paris beat the best urban communities for data trade while London was evaluated the

    best city for a social affair. Washington, D.C. the best city for political commitment. Hon Kong

    gloats of being a worldwide innovator in airship cargo while Brussels brags of being the best

    spot to set up an international haven.

    The expansion in worldwide urban areas is connected to the globalization of economies

    and the centralization of large-scale manufacturing inside urban focuses. The two elements

    have prompted the development of systems of exercises that look to satisfy the administration

    and money related necessities of multinationals. The urban communities develop to ended up

    worldwide while other endure deindustrialization or stagnation of their economies.


    Regardless of assuming noteworthy jobs in the worldwide economy, worldwide city

    proposition has been known for being a danger to state-driven points of view. These urban

    communities have been blamed for centering their compass to other worldwide urban areas

    and dismissing urban communities inside the national effort. These urban areas are more

    associated with the outside world than to their household economy. Even though they are

    interconnected and associated, worldwide urban communities are dependably in an aggressive

    state. The urban areas of New York and London have been endeavoring to outsmart each other

    as the worldwide money related focuses. Neighborhood governments have been quick to

    advance the worldwide urban communities inside their regions as either monetary or social

    focuses, and destinations of development.

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