X- GLOBAL CITY Flashcards
who wrote the book The Global City
Saskia Sassen
A new spatial order is emerging under globalization based on a network of global cities and led by New York, London and Tokyo.
It is in these cities that the myriad of inputs, services and amenities are to be found that make possible centralized coordination.
the global city
Large, technologically advanced urban areas defined the modern world
global city
what are the functions of global cities (cshm)
command post
specialized service
headquarters
market
They are highly concentrated command posts in the organization of the world economy
global cities as command post
They are key locations for finances and for specialized service firms providing ‘producer services’, which are professional and corporate services inputs for the leading global firm such as finances, insurance, real estate, accounting, advertising, engineering and
architectural design
specialized service function of global cities
they are sites for the production and innovation of these producer services and also headquarters for producer-service firms
global cities as headquarters
They are markets for the products and innovations produced and in these cities
market function of global cities
how does william i. robinson define global cities
we see concentration of new gendered and racialized transnational labour pools increasingly facing the
casualization and informalization of work in global cities