Global City Flashcards
Globalization is spatial because?
- it occurs in physical spaces
- it is based in places
Who popularized the term “global city”?
Saskia Sassen
What are the three global cities?
New York
London
Tokyo
What is NYSE?
New York Stock Exchange
What is FTSE?
Financial Times Stock Exchange
What are the multiple attributes of the global city?
Economic, Political, Cultural
It makes global city attractive to talents from across the world?
Economic Oppurtunities
It added criteria like market size, purchasing power of citizens, size of the middle class, and potential for growth to measure the economic competitiveness of a city
Economist Intelligence Unit
are also centers of authority
Global Cities
What is the influential political city near the Philippines?
Jakarta
Are centers of higher learning and culture
Global Cities
Carries the name of New York, London, or Paris
The New York Times
What ties the global cities to the imagination?
Cultural Power
Built in abandoned buildings may lead the way towards more environmentally sustainable cities
vertical farms
Paved the way for massive inequality
economic globalization
The phenomenon of driving out the poor in favor of newer, wealthier residents
gentrification
In France, poor Muslim migrants are forced out of Paris and have clustered around ethnic enclave know as
banlieue
are sites and mediums of globalization
Global cities
