Week 9 Global Population and Mobility Global City

Global Population and
Mobility
Week 9-11
Intended Learning Outcomes (ILO)
At the end of the week, students should be able to:
a. Identify the attributes of a global city;

b. analyze how cities serve as engines of globalization;
c. explain how multinational corporations influence the
development of global cities
Global Population and
Mobility
This chapter presents the essence and reality of global demography.
Week 9- The Global City deals with the concept of Cosmopolitanism and the
significance in world politics and international relations.
Week 10- The Global Demography talks about the present condition of world
population in terms of the ongoing fight against tyranny and terrorism. Also, the
importance of democracy and human rights is established.
Week 11- Global Migration, covers discussions about identity and personality.
GLOBAL CITY
WEEK 9
The Global City
Defining the Global City
• Sociologist Saskia Sassen
popularized the term “Global City” in the
1990s. Her criteria for what constitutes a
global were primarily economic.
• The global city serve as a hub for
production, finance, and
telecommunications.
• Sociologist Saskia Sassen, initially
identified three Global Cities; New York,
London, and Tokyo, all of these are hubs
of global finance and capitalism.
• Sassen (2005) outlined the different characteristics of
globality that maintain its link to globalization.
1) the cultural diversity of the people;

2) existence of a center of economy;
3) geographic dispersal of economic activities that
marks globalization;
4) global reach performance
• These characteristics are observed in famous

global cities such as New York, Tokyo, Singapore,
and Seoul.
• According to the 2018 Global Cities
Index, New York ranked the highest in
terms of the general criteria i.e
business activity, human capital,
information exchange, cultural
experience, and political engagement.
• New York is followed by London, Paris,
Tokyo, and Hong Kong.
WHAT IS GLOBAL CITY?
• Global city is 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 1980s, which
examined the common characteristics of the world's most
important cities.
• Global cities are “strategic sites” that manage and guide the
global economy. Many of these cities were already centers
for international trade and banking. (Sakia Sassen, Columbia
University Sociologist and leading theorist of global cities)
Sassen’s concept of the global city:
➔ Emphasis on the flow of information and capital
➔ Cities are major modes in the interconnected systems of
information and money
➔ Wealth that flows facilitate financial institutions, consulting firms,
accounting firms, law firms, and media organizations
• Global City is a dominant city that serves as the economic center

of globalization. (Charnock, 2013)
Globalization is spatial
• because
It occurs in:physical spaces.
Skyscrapers Condominium Units
• Places are the reason why it moves. Cities act on
globalization and globalization act on cities.
Los Angeles Tokyo

- The home of HOLLYWOOD - The main headquarters of SONY
ORIGIN OF THE WORD GLOBAL CITY
• Saskia Sassen first coined the “global city” in
the 90’s. using the economic criteria as the
primary indicator. She initially identified three
global cities: New York, London and Tokyo.
(Claudio and Abinales, 2018).
NEW YORK, TOKYO,
USA JAPAN
Source: iStock
WHY GLOBAL CITY IS IMPORTANT?
• They engage in interactions with nations and
other international players, pursue goals that
are frequently entwined with world economic
agendas, and are essential to issues
pertaining to climate change, mobility and
migration, technological innovation, economic
development, and infrastructure. (Zevi, 2018)
HOW TO DETERMINE A GLOBAL CITY?
According to Singh (n.d.), there are six indicators of
Global City:
• Economic Power
• Economic Opportunities
• Economic Competitiveness
• Center of Authority
• Center of Political Influence
• Center of Higher learning and culture
ECONOMIC POWER
• Determines which cities are global.
ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES
• Make it attractive to talents from across the world.
ECONOMIC COMPETITIVENESS
• Criteria in market size, purchasing power of citizens, size of
the middle class, and potential for growth.
CENTER OF AUTHORITY
• State power.
CENTER OF POLITICAL INFLUENCE
• Powerful political hubs exert influence on their own
countries as well on international affairs.
CENTER OF HIGHER LEARNING AND
CULTURE
• A city's intellectual Influence is seen through the influence of
it’s publishing industry.
GLOBAL CITY CHALLENGES
According to Chee, C. H. & Neo H. (2018), there are
five global city challenges:
A. Environmental Threats
B. Resources
C. Inequality
D. Technology
E. Governance
ENVIRONMENTAL THREATS
• Environmental hazards are becoming more severe
as a result of rapid urbanization, which puts a
demand on basic infrastructure, and more frequent
and catastrophic weather events linked to global
climate change. Coastal communities are
particularly at risk from tropical cyclones, flooding,
heat waves, and epidemics.
RESOURCES
• Resources like food, water, and electricity are
necessary for cities to function. Urban sprawl
decreases agricultural fields, water catchment
areas, and energy availability.
INEQUALITY
• For various categories of urban residents, the
outlook is uneven in terms of the availability of
basic resources and resistance against
environmental challenges. There will be more
urban poor people in many places as the number
of urban rich people rises.
TECHNOLOGY
• Technology is increasingly used in the development
and running of global cities.
GOVERNANCE
• Cities will increase in size and their populations
become more diverse. Governing these cities will,
therefore, be progressively complex and require
the most dedicated and best government.
Review
Questions
1. It is an urban center that
enjoys significant competitive
advantages and serves as a
hub within a globalized
economic system.
Global City
2. Give at least 2
challenges in the global
cities?
Environmental threats
Enequality
Resources
Technology
Governance
3. This indicator is the one
who maintains the seat of
power in the country which
means the main political
offices of the country is
located right there in the
city?
Center of authority
4. Give at least 3 example
of global city?
New York, London,
Tokyo, Paris,
Singapore, Sydney
Los Angeles, Toronto
Shanghai, Hong Kong
What are the three global
cities according to Sassen?
New York, London
Tokyo
5. The city where the main
headquarters of sony is
located ?
Tokyo, Japan
REFERENCES
Charnock, G. (2013, May 30). global city. Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved from
https://www.britannica.com/topic/global-city. (accessed last 03 October 2022).
Chee, C. H., & Neo H. (2018, October 29). 5 big challenges facing big cities of the future. World
Economic Forum. Retrieved from: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/10/the- 5-
biggest-challenges- cities-will-face-in-the-future. (accessed last 10 October 2022).
Claudio, L. E., & Abinales, P. N. (2018) The Contemporary world. South Triangle, Q.C.C & E
Publishing, Inc. Retrieved from:
https://classroom.google.com/u/1/c/NTQ1NTA4MTI0ODAw/a/NTUwMA 5MTY5MDUz/details.
(accessed last 09 October 2022).
REFERENCES
Longworth, C. (2015). On Global Cities. On Global Cities - The Chicago Council on Global Affairs. 332 South
Michigan Avenue, Suite 1100, Chicago, IL, 60604: The Chicago Council on Global Affairs. November 14, 2022.
Retrieved from: https://globalaffairs.org/sites/default/files/2021-01/On_Global_Cities.pdf
Singh, S. (n.d.). GLOBAL CITY – What is Global City?. Plant2tree. Retrieved from:
https://www.plant2tree.com/world/global-city/. (accessed last 03 October 2022).
Zevi, T. (2018, November 06). Why Global Cities Matter. ITALIAN INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL
POLITICAL STUDIES. Retrieved from: https://www.ispionline.it/en/pubblicazione/why-global-cities-matter-
21562#:~:text=They%20interact%20with%20states%20and,innovation% 2C%20economic
%20development%20and%20infrastructure. (accessed last 10 October 2022).

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a. Identify the attributes of a global city;

1) the cultural diversity of the people;

• These characteristics are observed in famous

• Global City is a dominant city that serves as the economic center

Los Angeles Tokyo

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