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World Cities (the role of world cities as powerful centres of economic and…
World Cities
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The nature, character and spatial distribution of world cities
Globalisation driven by
- Technological developments
- Trade liberalisation
- Deregulation of financial markets
- New forms of economic activity
- New ways of organising economical enterprises
- Emergence of transnational corporations
- emergence of the global market
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Important as centres of
- international finance
- transnational business
- international business services
'organising nodes', linking regional, national and international economies to the global economy
Command and control centers of the global economy
- New York
- London
- Tokyo
- Paris?
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GDP, Market, Exchange, Trade
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The relationships of dominance and dependence between world cities and other urban centres and the changing role of regional centres and the demise of the small town.
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