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2 Group Activity
Content
1 Why Study Global Cities?
3 Indicators
investments
• As all these happen, more poor people are driven out of
city centers to make way for the new developments.
Why Study Global Cities?
1950 2014
2050
66% of the
world will live in
urban areas.
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This studies globalization through the living environment of a
rapidly increasing number of people.
1.Economic
power
•Economic
power largely
determines
which cities are
global. -
Sassen
Indicators for Global City
2. Market size
Indicators for Global City
• Small city where one can tour the entire city by bicycle
in 30 mins.
• One of the Culinary capitals of the world.