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Group 8
Magtuto, Maureen
Mariano, Ken Louie
Jimenez, Alexis John S.
THE GLOBAL CITY
- Definition of Global City
- Indicators for Globality
- The Challenges of Global Cities
- The Global City of the Poor
DEFINITION OF GLOBAL CITY
Global city, an urban center that enjoys significant competitive advantages and that serves
as a hub within a globalized economic system. The term has its origins in research on
cities carried out during the 1980's, which examined the common characteristics of the
world's most important cities.
However, with increased attention being paid to processes of Globalization during
subsequent years, these world cities came to be known as Global Cities.
“Just as the great industrial cities grew from the industrial era, Global cities are the product of
the Global Economy. Any definition of Global City starts with its economy and with its place in
the larger global economy”
INDICATORS OF GLOBALITY
Indicators of Global City (Claudio & Abinales, 2018 )
Seat of Economic Power
Economic Opportunities
Economic Competitiveness
Center of Authority
Center of Political Influence
Center of Higher Learning and Culture
THE CHALLENGES OF GLOBAL CITIES
Coastal communities are particularly at risk from tropical cyclones, which also
pose a threat to other common environmental hazards including flooding,
heat waves, and epidemics. Due to the physical and human density of cities,
such hazards frequently result in both deaths and severe financial loss.
• The idea of fast-paced, fascinating, cosmopolitan lifestyles is associated with global cities.
• They can be places of extreme poverty, inequality, and violence. Cities around the world
produce winners and losers.
• Richard Florida's notes state: "Ecologist have found that by concentrating their populations
in smaller areas, cities and metros decrease human encroachment on natural habitats.
Denser settlement patterns yield energy savings, apartment buildings, for example, are more
efficient to heat and cool than detached suburban houses."
• in addition, individuals tend to drive less in cities with good public transit systems, reducing
carbon emissions.
• More significantly, given the size of urban populations globally, it is not surprise that cities
use the majority of the world's energy.
• Cities only occupy 2% of the earth's natural territory, but they use 78% of the energy
produced worldwide. Therefore, if carbon emissions are to be reduced in order to stop global
warming, then this massive energy consumption in cities needs to be reduced. Cities have
also been the targets of previous big terror strikes.
• Due to their high populations and status as a symbol of globalization, which many terrorists
despise, cities, especially those with worldwide significance, are obvious targets for
terrorists.
• The same characteristics that attract workers and migrants also make them possible targets
for terrorist violence.
THE GLOBAL CITY OF THE POOR
We have consistently noted that economic globalization has paved the way
for massive inequality. This phenomenon is thus very pronounced in cities.
As the city attracts more capital and richer residents are forced to relocate to
far away but cheaper areas. This phenomenon of driving out the poor in favor
of newer, welthier residents is called GENTRIFICATION.
Once living in the public urban housing, they were forced to move farther
away from city centers that offer more jobs, more government services, and
better transportation due to gentrification. In France, poor Muslim migrants
are forced out of Paris and have clustered around ethnic enclaves known as
banlieue.
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