Global cities, glocal states: global city formation and state territorial restructuring in contemporary Europe

1998 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neil Brenner
Keyword(s):  
Global City ◽  
Global Cities ◽  
City Formation

scholarly journals Comparisons of the City Brand Influence of Global Cities: Word-Embedding Based Semantic Mining and Clustering Analysis on the Big Data of GDELT Global News Knowledge Graph

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (16) ◽  
pp. 6294
Author(s):  
Chenyu Zheng
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
News Media ◽  
Clustering Analysis ◽  
Global City ◽  
Word Embedding ◽  
Knowledge Graph ◽  
Global Cities ◽  
City Brand ◽  
Semantic Mining ◽  
The City

Global cities act as influential hubs in the networked world. Their city brands, which are projected by the global news media, are becoming sustainable resources in various global competitions and cooperations. This study adopts the research paradigm of computational social science to assess and compare the city brand attention, positivity, and influence of ten Globalization and World Cities Research Network (GaWC) Alpha+ global cities, along with their dimensional structures, based on combining the cognitive and affective theoretical perspectives on the frameworks of the Anholt global city brand dimension system, the big data of global news knowledge graph in Google’s Global Database of Events, Language, and Tone (GDELT), and the technologies of word-embedding semantic mining and clustering analysis. The empirical results show that the overall values and dimensional structures of city brand influence of global cities form distinct levels and clusters, respectively. Although global cities share a common structural characteristic of city brand influence of the dimensions of presence and potential being most prominent, Western and Eastern global cities differentiate in the clustering of dimensional structures of city brand attention, positivity, and influence. City brand attention is more important than city brand positivity in improving the city brand influence of global cities. The preferences of the global news media over global city brands fits the nature of global cities.

Global cities, glocal fauna: animals and the urban British Atlantic, 1660–1800

Urban History ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Andrew Wells
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Global City ◽  
Test Case ◽  
Global Cities ◽  
British Atlantic ◽  
Reciprocal Influence ◽  
Human Animal

Abstract This article has two principal aims. The first is to assess the usefulness of ‘glocalization’ as a concept in the study of early modern global cities, using human–animal interactions as a test case. The second is to explore the reciprocal influence that human–animal interactions and the development of global cities had on each other. Exploration of these two issues interrogates the frequently contradictory, often ambiguous and always contested nature of the early modern global city itself.

Global-City-Formierung, Gentrifizierung und Grundrentenbildung in Frankfurt am Main

2013 ◽  
Vol 57 (1-2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sebastian Schipper
Keyword(s):  
Inner City ◽  
Driving Force ◽  
National Average ◽  
Global City ◽  
Land Values ◽  
Urban Hierarchy ◽  
Frankfurt Am Main ◽  
City Formation ◽  
Monopoly Rents ◽  
Property Markets

Global City formation, gentrification and the appropriation of ground rent in Frankfurt am Main. Based on statistics on land values between 1984 and 2012, this paper focuses on the relations between Global City formation, gentrification and the appropriation of ground rent in the case of Frankfurt am Main. It argues that the post-fordist urban hierarchy and the power of landowners to treat their property as a pure financial asset are reflected in rising and volatile ground rent levels in Germany’s most globalized financial center compared to the national average of urban property markets. Furthermore, it interprets the increasing potential for the appropriation of monopoly rents as a driving force behind recent gentrification processes in inner-city neighborhoods.

scholarly journals Global cities and the transformation of the International System

2010 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 1923-1947 ◽  
Author(s):  
SIMON CURTIS
Keyword(s):  
Urban Form ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
International System ◽  
National Level ◽  
Global City ◽  
Global Cities ◽  
Control Functions ◽  
Historical Relationship ◽  
And Control ◽  
Made In

AbstractThe emergence of a new urban form, the global city, has attracted little attention from International Relations (IR) scholars, despite the fact that much progress has been made in conceptualising and mapping global cities and their networks in other fields. This article argues that global cities pose fundamental questions for IR theorists about the nature of their subject matter, and shows how consideration of the historical relationship between cities and states can illuminate the changing nature of the international system. It highlights how global cities are essential to processes of globalisation, providing a material and infrastructural backbone for global flows, and a set of physical sites that facilitate command and control functions for a decentralised global economy. It goes on to argue that the rise of the global city challenges IR scholars to consider how many of the assumptions that the discipline makes about the modern international system are being destabilised, as important processes deterritorialise at the national level and are reconstituted at different scales.

Global cities, Tokyo, urban tourism

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-157 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joan Henderson
Keyword(s):  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Global City ◽  
Global Cities ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Tourist Destinations ◽  
International Tourist ◽  
Tourist Flows ◽  
Tourism Resources ◽  
The Relationship

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between global cities and international tourism with particular reference to the recent experiences of Tokyo which has recently seen a marked increase in arrivals. It addresses questions of the standing of Tokyo as a global city and tourist destination, how the two functions are connected and why changes are occurring. Design/methodology/approach The methodology employed is that of an empirical case study based on the analysis of published materials drawn from a diversity of sources. Findings The defining characteristics of global cities are generally conducive to their function as international tourist destinations. They possess a wealth of tourism resources and amenities which facilitate inbound tourist flows. Tokyo is a prominent example of a global city, but has tended to attract fewer visitors than others in that category. The recent significant growth in arrivals is attributed to changes in the tourism industry and wider environment, yet some challenges remain before it can catch up with its counterparts. Originality/value Fresh insights are afforded into the implications of global city status for tourism and the development of Tokyo as a destination which tends to have been neglected in the literature.

scholarly journals Global Cities of the East: a conceptual and empirical analysis of foreign studies

2021 ◽  
Vol 135 (2) ◽  
pp. 115-129
Author(s):  
K.M. Ilyassova ◽  
◽  
S.A. Bagdatova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Global City ◽  
Global Cities ◽  
Industrialized Countries ◽  
Kuala Lumpur ◽  
Urban Hierarchy ◽  
World Cities ◽  
The World ◽  
Urbanized Areas ◽  
National Models

The article is aimed at defining the findings and concepts of the researchers of the Eastern global cities and highlighting the features of "East Asian" global cities. For the most of the twentieth century, this area was one of the least urbanized areas in the world, but now cities are growing rapidly and becoming important centers in the regional and global urban hierarchy. The researchers of the Eastern countries identified 16 major megacities claiming the title of world cities, namely Tokyo, Osaka, Kobe, Beijing, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Seoul, Busan, Taipei, Singapore, Bangkok, Manila, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, and Istanbul. Tokyo on this list, followed by Hong Kong, is included in the "Global City", while Seoul and Taipei are included in the ranking of world cities as national models of "recently industrialized countries". These and other issues related to the global cities of the East are based on research and analysis by foreign and Russian authors.

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