The Global City

THE GLOBAL CITY
1. What are the attributes of global cities?

The attributes that are common to global cities are:
- Compared to the rural areas of nation-states, global cities are seen as the
avenues where global networks and transactions transpire.
- It is where financial cash flows of massive scales take place attracting
companies and multinational corporations to invest in infrastructures and
other business endeavors which in turn generate employment opportunities
for their citizens.
- Global cities attract people to migrate because it comes with a promise of a
better life than that which they already have.
- According to Britannica Encyclopedia, a global city is an urban center that
enjoys significant competitive advantages and that serves as a hub within a
globalized economic system.
- Another criterion to determine a global city is the occurrence of an
international population based.
- Global cities also have the greatest number of business infrastructures
housing international organizations, and business alike.
- Global cities are also centers of innovation and higher learning.
2. Give 4 examples of cities and explain why they can be considered as global cities.
 London. Because it is the world’s leading market as far as transactions are
concerned and also constitutes a crucial airport node and is one of the
ends of the economic backbone that crosses Europe.
 New York. For being the main receiver of capital flows and service
exporter.
 Tokyo. For being the greatest capital lender and the headquarters of the
most important banks in the world, as well as an international center in the
economy of services, education, advertising, and design.
 Los Angeles. Known as the global capital of the entertainment industry
but also has developed systems of hyper-local arts production that reflect
the diversity of the region. It is a hub for cultural diversity that boasts
having the third-largest population of foreign-born citizens in America,
according to research by the Martin Property Institute. With over 200
languages spoken throughout the city’s rich cultural enclaves spanning
from Koreatown to Little Ethiopia, it is clear that Angelenos are deeply
rooted in cosmopolitan urbanism.
3. Give 3 major problems or challenges that are prevalent in global cities. What are
the causes of these problems?
 Significant rise in the city population. People flock towards cities trying
their luck to improve their financial status. However, not all who migrates
to global cities are rewarded, many end up contributing to the slum
populace.
 Food and water shortage. Research reveals that 2.5 billion individuals
have no access to clean water and sanitation. Many people still go hungry
as food is unevenly distributed all over the world bringing into question
global food security.
 Climate change and rising temperatures. Cities are considered as the
greatest contributor of greenhouse gas emissions and climate change
affects more people than others for some are more equipped to handle
the effects of climate change.
4. Describe the relationship between globalization and global cities.
According to an article by Greig Charnock written in Britannica.com, a
global city is an urban center that enjoys significant competitive advantages and
that serves as a hub within a globalized economic system.
The term has its origins in research on cities carried out during the 1980s,
which examined the common characteristics of the world’s most important cities.
However, with increased attention being paid to processes of globalization
during subsequent years, these world cities came to be known as global cities.
Linked with globalization was the idea of spatial reorganization and the
hypothesis that cities were becoming key loci within global networks of
production, finance, and telecommunications. In some formulations of the global
city thesis, then, such cities are seen as the building blocks of globalization.
Simultaneously, these cities were becoming newly privileged sites of local politics
within the context of a broader project to reconfigure state institutions.

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1. What are the attributes of global cities?

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