Global Cities

Who popularized the term “global city” in the 1900’s ?

• Marshall Mcluhan

• Saskia Sassen

• Arjun Appadurai

The global city can either be a place of commerce where production, manufacturing or distribution of goods and services from the said city trade to the rest of world.

• True

• False

Most of today's major global cities are also world cities.

• True

• False

Global cities are centers of economic activity but not authority.

• true

• false

Global cities also have their undersides. They can be sites of great inequality and poverty as well as tremendous violence.

• True

• False

Check all that applies: What are the salient features of Global Cities?

• International and national connectivity

• International cuisine

• International Culture

• International Infrastructure

• Global Economic and political importance

What are the challenges of Global Cities

• Inequality

• Resources

• Technology

• Environmental Threats

• Governance

Check that applies: Global Cities Key indicators

• · a. Skyscrapers

• b. Large metropolitan area

• ·c. personal wealth; e.g., number of billionaires

• a and b only

Reduction of green spaces with in cities is one of the ill effects of global cities.

• true

• false

Global Cities

• Tokyo

• New York

• Shanghai

• Melbourne