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    Global cities are centers of economic and political power that attract global talent. Key criteria for what makes a city global are its economic competitiveness, including market size and growth potential. Global cities are also cultural hubs that foster diversity but can also be sites of inequality, with rising costs forcing out poorer residents. While density makes global cities more sustainable, they face challenges like threats from terrorism due to their symbolic role in globalization.

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    Global cities are centers of economic and political power that attract global talent. Key criteria for what makes a city global are its economic competitiveness, including market size and growth potential. Global cities are also cultural hubs that foster diversity but can also be sites of inequality, with rising costs forcing out poorer residents. While density makes global cities more sustainable, they face challenges like threats from terrorism due to their symbolic role in globalization.

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    Global cities are centers of economic and political power that attract global talent. Key criteria for what makes a city global are its economic competitiveness, including market size and growth potential. Global cities are also cultural hubs that foster diversity but can also be sites of inequality, with rising costs forcing out poorer residents. While density makes global cities more sustainable, they face challenges like threats from terrorism due to their symbolic role in globalization.

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    The Global City

    • Globalization is spatial because it occurs in physical spaces.


    • Globalization is spatial because what it makes move is the fact
    that is based in places.
    • Global City was popularized by sociologist Saski Sasses in the
    1990s and her criteria for what constitutes a global city were
    primarily economic.
    • The three global cities are New York, London & Tokyo.
    • Any account of economic power of cities today must take note
    of the latest developments.
    • Other people consider some cities global because they are
    great places to live in.
    Indicators for Globality
    • Economic power largely determines which cities are global.
    Economic opportunities in a global city make it attractive to
    talents from across the world. To measure the economic
    competitiveness of a city, The Economist Intelligence Unit has
    added other criteria like market size, purchasing power of
    citizens, size of the middle class, and potential for growth.
    • Global cities are also centers of authority : The cities that
    house major international organizations may also be considered
    centers of political influence.
    • Global cities are centers of higher learning and culture. It is the
    cultural power of global cities that ties them to the imagination.
    Global cities become culturally diverse.
    Challenges of Global Cities
    • Global cities conjure up images of fast-paced, exciting,
    cosmopolitan lifestyles. Such descriptions are lacking.
    • Global cities can be sites of great inequality and poverty as well
    as tremendous violence.
    • Global cities create winners and losers.
    • Cities can be sustainable because of their density.
    • According to Richard Florida, ecologists have found that by
    concentrating their populations in smaller areas, cities and
    metros decrease human encroachment on natural habitats.
    • Denser settlement patterns yield energy savings.
    • Because of the sheer size of city populations across the world,
    urban areas consume most of the world’s energy.
    • If more food can be grown with less water in denser spaces,
    cities will begin to greener.
    • Cities, especially those with global influence are obvious targets
    for terrorists due to their high populations and their role as
    symbols of globalizations that many terrorists despise.
    The Global City and the Poor
    • Economic globalization has paved the way for massive
    inequality.
    • Many cities, particularly those in the developing countries are
    sites of contradiction.
    • As a city attracts more capital and richer residents, real estate
    prices go up and poor residents are forced to relocate to far
    away but cheaper areas.
    • Gentrification is a phenomenon of driving out the poor in favor
    of newer and wealthier residents.
    • Banlieue is an ethnic enclaves for poor Muslim migrants in
    France.
    • The middle class is also thinning out in the world’s global cities.
    • Globalization creates high-income jobs that are concentrated in
    global cities.
    Conclusion
    • Global cities are sites and mediums of globalization.
    • Global cities are material representations of the phenomenon.
    • Through global cities, we see the best of globalization; they are
    places that create exciting fusions of culture and ideas.
    • Global cities are places that generate tremendous wealth.
    • It remain sites of great inequality, where global servants serve
    global entrepreneurs.

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