scholarly journals US Global Cities as Centres of Attraction of Foreign TNCs

2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (46) ◽  
pp. 137-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Pilka ◽  
Nikolay Sluka
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Multinational Corporations ◽  
International Business ◽  
Location Decisions ◽  
Global Cities ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Foreign Corporations ◽  
Hierarchical Pattern

AbstractThe concept of global cities and the importance of transnationalisation processes in their formation are widely acknowledged. However, the debate surrounding global city identification continues. The study introduces a new approach to evaluating global cities by primarily looking at them as locales for foreign multinational corporations. By analysing the location decisions made by foreign TNCs in the Forbes 2000 rankings, two things become apparent: the “nodality” of US global cities and their hierarchical pattern. Our findings show the key role that Alpha global cities play in attracting and fostering international business. We identify five uneven groups of cities. These groups are defined in accordance with our methodology and are as follows: the New York city-hegemon, leading cities, heavyweight cities, middleweight cities and outsider cities. The article specifies several key factors determining a city’s attractiveness to foreign corporations: its geo-economical power, functional specialisation, location, historical and cultural ties, and position on different sectoral markets.

Jackson Heights Neighborhood Transportation Study, New York City: New Approach in Community-Based Planning

2012 ◽  
Vol 2307 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oliver Ernhofer ◽  
Willa Ng ◽  
Gill Mosseri ◽  
David Stein ◽  
Don Varley ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Community Based ◽  
New Approach

scholarly journals COVID-19 in Three Global Cities: Comparing Impacts and Outcomes

2021 ◽  
pp. 2150013
Author(s):  
Peter John Marcotullio ◽  
Michael Schmeltz
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Emergency Response ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Global Cities ◽  
Emergency Response System ◽  
Response System ◽  
The World ◽  
National Systems

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has impacted cities around the world. Global cities theory suggests that cities articulated to the global economy should be affected by such flows similarly. We start from this perspective and examine the impacts and outcomes of COVID-19 in three global cities: New York City, London and Tokyo. Our results focus on the speed, intensity, scale and characteristics of COVID-19 related cases and deaths in these cities and their respective countries. We find that while there are similarities between the experiences of global cities, there are also significant differences. The differences can be partially explained by policy, socio-economic and cultural differences. Our findings suggest that cities articulated to the global system could benefit from developing their own locally unique early warning and emergency response system, integrated with but separate from national systems.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Steichen
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
New York City ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Formative Period ◽  
New Approach ◽  
George Balanchine ◽  
The Past ◽  
Collective Work ◽  
Collaborative Efforts

This introduction explains that the early collaborative efforts of George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein have been written about in ways that misrepresented the true character of their activity during the 1930s. It shows how a “received history” has come to define this period, which is construed as leading to the inevitable success of the School of American Ballet and New York City Ballet. It contextualizes the goals of this book in relation to recent innovations in the study of twentieth-century dance and music, in particular scholarship on modernism, and makes the case for a new approach to this period of cultural history. It argues that a lack of clarity regarding this formative period in Balanchine and Kirstein’s collaborative enterprise has led to misunderstandings regarding the past, present, and future meaning of their individual and collective work.

scholarly journals Urban Flood Resilience in New York City, London, Randstad, Tokyo, Shanghai, and Taipei

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu-Shou Su
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Land Use ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Environmental Planning ◽  
Disaster Resilience ◽  
Global Cities ◽  
Urban Flood ◽  
Asian Cities ◽  
Flood Prone Areas

<p>Making cities resilient to natural disasters has become a priority for many policy makers. However, few studies of global cities analyze environmental vulnerability, disaster resilience, or urban flood resilience. This article analyzes global cities’ disaster resilience to flooding: New York City, London, Randstad, Tokyo, Shanghai, and Taipei. Case studies of those global cities will assist cities world-wide to prepare for the future. Results indicate that a hurricane could leave approximately 25% of New York City with severe economic losses by 2050. In London, 15% of the land is located in flood-prone areas. The Thames Barrier began to operate to protect London from flooding in 1982. However, this also encouraged housing development closer to the river, and resulted in higher exposure and vulnerability of flooding. Randstad has approximately 40% of its land areas in flood-prone areas, but Randstad is well prepared for flood risk reduction by land-use and environmental planning. In Tokyo, extensive urbanization suffers from severe damages once flooding occurs. In Shanghai, approximately 50% of its land is in flood-prone areas. Shanghai is the most vulnerable to floods of the coastal cities. Shanghai is still not well prepared in land-use and environment planning for urban flood resilience. In Taipei, flood-prone areas account for approximately 41% of its total land area in an extreme weather scenario. Among these six global cities, Asian cities should focus more on urban flood resilience since most of flooding hotspots by 2025 will be located in Asian nations with having weak policies and actions, inadequate risk information, insufficient budgets and poor implementation capacities (UNISDR 2013). This research suggests that global cities, particularly Asian cities, should promote policies of urban flood resilience, focusing on land-use and environmental planning for resilience as well as strengthening their organizations and funding to reduce disaster risk, maintain up-to-date risk and vulnerability assessment. Urban policies should include environmentally responsible development in the face of continued population and economic growth, and being resilient regarding natural disasters. Cities can also adopt a growth management policy to direct development away from flooding hotspots. Urban regeneration policy should require developers to improve storm sewers, water retention ponds, and permeable surfaces. Planning more space for rivers, more constructed wetlands, and more ecological ponds to accommodate water is important. Cities can promote an actuarially fair flood insurance program which can reflect actual flood risks. A bottom-up community resilience plan would assist achieving urban resilience.</p>

scholarly journals The implementation of natural lighting for human health from a planning perspective

2021 ◽  
Vol 53 (5) ◽  
pp. 489-513
Author(s):  
J Mardaljevic
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Real World ◽  
York City ◽  
Building Performance ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Natural Lighting ◽  
Interior Spaces ◽  
The Impact

This paper makes the case that a significant factor in the failure to ensure adequate daylighting performance for interior spaces is often due to the inadequacy of methods used at the early stages of planning. All of the methods currently used for daylight/sunlight planning share common failings: they cannot make meaningful estimations of performance at the outset, nor can the methods used be extended/refined to overcome these failings. Thus, it is argued, a new approach is required. The paper gives an overview of the history and development of methods to predict performance; from the conception of the daylight factor to climate-based daylight modelling. The impact of prescriptive planning regulations is described using New York City as the example. The paper concludes with an outline of a new modelling schema which can provide the much needed link between the real-world practicalities of building planning and the need to determine realistic indicators of building performance at the earliest stages of obtaining planning consent.

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