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Encyclopedia: Global city

For a city spanning an entire planet, see Ecumenopolis. A global city or world city is a concept promoted by the geography department at Loughborough University which postulates that globalisation can be broken down in terms of strategic geographic locales that see global processes being created, facilitated and enacted. The most complex of these entities is the "global city", whereby the linkages binding a city have a direct and tangible effect on global affairs through more than just socio-economic means, with influence in terms of culture, or politics.^[1] The terminology of "global city", as opposed to megacity, is thought to have been first coined by Saskia Sassen in reference to London, New York and Tokyo in her 1991 work The Global City.^[2]

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How to say "Global city" in other languages:

	(Chinese)	全球城市
	(Japanese)	世界的大都市
	(German)	Weltstadt
	(Spanish)	Ciudad de clase mundial
	(French)	Ville mondiale

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Network society

networks rather than confined in global cities. This contrasts with other theorists who rank cities... crisscross. Élites in cities are not attached to a particular locality but to the space of flows...

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Taguig

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International School Manila

increased diversity of the student body. The school was located in Bel-Air Village, Makati City from 1960 to 2002. In 2002, it relocated to its current site in Fort Bonifacio Global City. ISM is a...

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Social distance

especially true for global cities... sexuality, but also the fact that the different groups do not mix. The term is often applied in cities, but... is restriced to the distance from the dominant city élite . The social periphery of a city is often...

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City

. Global cities Global cities are centres of trade, banking, finance, innovations, and markets. The term global city is opposed to megacity. Whereas megacity refers to any city of enormous size, a global... as global cities, but the term is also applied to other cities. The notion of global cities regards...

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