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The foremost attribute is Economic Opportunities.

Economic Opportunities in a global city make it


attractive to talents from across the world. Global cities are also Centers of Authority. Powerful political
hubs exert influence on their own countries as well on international affairs. Washington D.C. may not be
wealthy as New York, but it is the seat of American state power. Finally, Global cities are higher learning
and culture. A city’s intellectual influence is seen through the influence of its publishing industry. It is
cultural power of global cities that ties them to be imagination.

Globalization creates opportunities for many countries to experience growth. Globalization also gives
economic the opportunity to take advantage of lower labor costs in developing countries, while
leveraging the technical expertise and experience of more developed economies.

In center of authority, Globalization have brought with them an incipient unbundling of the exclusive
authority over territory and people we have long associated with the nation-state. The most strategic
example of this unbundling is probably the global city, which has emerged as a partly denationalized
platform for global capital and for the most diverse mix of people from all over the world. This process
brings with it operational and conceptual openings for the participation of non-state actors in trans-
boundary domains once exclusive to the national state. Among such actors are non-governmental
organizations, first-nation peoples, and anti-globalization activists. And they include multinational
corporations and global markets which can engage indirect transactions with each other, bypassing
many of the strictures of the inter-state system that until recently was the necessary context for their
cross-border activities.

In center of higher learning and culture, culture is innately geographical. It emanates from one place or
another. Culture may be based in peripheral area, but is package or reformulated by cultural centers for
distribution into the global culture. Cities have always been the plays where artists, intellectuals, writers,
musicians and philosophers gravitate

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