X- GLOBAL CITY Flashcards

1
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who wrote the book The Global City

A

Saskia Sassen

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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.

A

the global city

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Large, technologically advanced urban areas defined the modern world

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global city

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4
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what are the functions of global cities (cshm)

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command post
specialized service
headquarters
market

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5
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They are highly concentrated command posts in the organization of the world economy

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global cities as command post

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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

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specialized service function of global cities

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they are sites for the production and innovation of these producer services and also headquarters for producer-service firms

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global cities as headquarters

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They are markets for the products and innovations produced and in these cities

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market function of global cities

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9
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how does william i. robinson define global cities

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we see concentration of new gendered and racialized transnational labour pools increasingly facing the
casualization and informalization of work in global cities

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