To call a global city your own suggests that the ideas and values of your metropolis shape the world.
It means power, sophistication, wealth, and influence. In many ways, the story of globalization is the story of urbanization.īut what makes a "global city"? The term itself conjures a command center for the cognoscenti. They are the engines of growth for their countries and the gateways to the resources of their regions. The world’s biggest, most interconnected cities help set global agendas, weather transnational dangers, and serve as the hubs of global integration. National governments may shape the broad outlines of globalization, but where does it really play out? Where are globalization’s successes and failures most acute? Where else but the places where most of humanity now chooses to live and work - cities.
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