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Globalised Urbanisation
Peter Hall
1966
Page 7 - "There are certain great cities, in which a quite disproportionate part of the world's most important business is conducted. In 1915 the pioneer thinker and writer on city and regional planning, Patrick Geddes, christened them the World Cities"
World Cities as "national centres" - Population, political power. commercial centres, transportation centres, financial centres, cultural centres, centres of professional talent.
Saskia Sassen
1991
page 5 - "The combination of spatial dispersal and global integration has created a new strategic role for major cities... Thus a new type of city has appeared. It is the global city".
Shift from focus on formal command power - Places of production of highly specialised knowledge intensive producer services.
The 'things' a global city makes are services and financial goods (p.5)
"The more globalised the economy becomes the higher the agglomeration of central functions in a relatively few sites. that is the global cities" p.g. 5
Effects on national urban systems (e.g. Relations between new global cities and old industrial centres).
Effects on the social order of the global city.
Focus on New York, London, Tokyo plus "a handful of other strategic cities (Sasssen, 1999, pig, 75)
Friedmann
1986
Page 69 - My purpose...is to state, as succinctly as I can, the main theses that link urbanisation processes to global economic forces...The world city hypothesis is about the spatial organisation of the new international division of labour.
With Goetz Wolff 1982 - World cities as instruments for the control of production and market organization
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Manuel Castells
1996
"The global city phenomenon cannot be reduced to a few urban cores at the top of the hierarchy. It is a process that connects advanced producer services, producer centres and markets in a global network".
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