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East asia top global city region2/11/2024 It bears certain relationships among a region that formed by a group of cities with different scale, development trend and industrial collaboration – even not a group of cities, rural areas are also included. However the later phenomena show that a global city is able to benefit its surrounding area in much industrial field. Originally we thought that global cities had fewer interactions with its home country, ‘New York is another country’. In 2004, a new theory of ‘Global City-Region’ came out. Take Suzhou as an example, it is the globalized mass-productive base that never ‘less globalized’ than Shanghai, Singapore and Taipei which are the distribution center in the whole network. At that time, many mass-productive cities in Asia has no longer been hinterland of an only city. It can be viewed as the starting point of investigating the interaction of Asian cities in Asia. Taylor then raised a new concept ‘World City Network’ in 2000, concerning more about financial, labour, production-consumption, and industrial transferring flows in between of cities in different globalized level. Sassen’s theory emphasized the accumulation of the third-tier industry, including finance, insurance, accounting, supervision etc. Global cities became the agent and managing regional mass production. The concept and research of World City highlighted the controlling force to their hinterland.Īfter the WWII, international corporations replaced the traditional colonial empires. They were also responsible to the benefit distribution of different colonizers, such as Shanghai to British, French and Americans. At this time, the world cities may not be dominated by a single country. The colonizers needed to get market monopoly in a certain place via a gate, mostlyĪ harbor city. At that time the global production – distribution – consumption network is under construction, and mainly contributed by the United Kingdom. Geddes raised the later concept in 1915 when the colonizing era had not finished. Q: How the concept of Global City has changed?Ī: Global City is generated from the concept World City. Interview with SU Ning, Shanghai Academic Social Sciences
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