GLOBAL CITIES AND THE

MYTHS OF SLUMS
 DEFINING GLOBAL CITY
It is defined as an urban center that
enjoys significant competitive advantages
and that serves as a hub within a
globalized economic system
Global Cities are also called world city, alpha city and
world center. These are cities which are known as
primary nodes or central places in the global
economic network.The use of "global city", was
popularized by sociologist Saskia Sassan. Examples
of Global Cities are: London, New York City, Paris and
Tokyo.

 CLASSIFICATIONS OF CITY TO BE
CALLED GLOBAL

THE CITY SHOULD HAVE A COMBINATION OF POWERFUL, STRONG AND UNIQUE CULTURE, STYLE AND HISTORY.

A GLOBAL CITY IS A CITY OF DEMOGRAPHIC AND ECONOMIC CHANGE. IT CONTAINS INTERNATIONAL

ORGANIZATIONS, DIFFERENT FIRMS SUCH AS LAW FIRMS, HEADQUARTERS FOR MULTINATIONAL
COUNTRIES AS WELL AS STOCK EXCHANGES THAT INFLUENCE THE WORLD’S ECONOMY.

GLOBAL CITIES CREATE ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES OFFERED ACROSS THE WORLD.

GLOBAL CITIES ARE ECONOMICALLY COMPETITIVE

 DID YOU KNOW?

Manila rose seven spots to 114th out of 150 cities in the 2022
edition of the Global 150 Cities Index published by the human
resources consulting firm Associates for International Research,
Inc. (AIRINC). The index ranks countries that have the ideal
combination of high salaries, low taxes, cost, and quality of life to
settle in. The Philippines’ capital city ranked higher in the
financial rank (103rd overall) while ranking 118th in the lifestyle
rank. However, it was the second lowest in the East and
Southeast Asian region, only ranking higher than Jakarta,
Indonesia (124th overall)
 CHALLENGES OF GLOBAL CITIES

1.GLOBAL CITIES CONJURE UP IMAGES OF FAST PACED, EXCITING, COSMOPOLITAN LIFESTYLES.

2.THEY CAN BE SITES OF GREAT INEQUALITY AND POVERTY AS WELL AS TREMENDOUS VIOLENCE.

3.GLOBAL CITIES CREATE WINNERS AND LOSERS.

4.PEOPLE TEND TO DRIVE MORE AND THEREBY CONTRIBUTE TO CARBON EMISSIONS AND CAUSE GLOBAL
WARMING.

5. BECAUSE OF THE MASSIVENESS OF CITY POPULATIONS ACROSS THE WORLD, GLOBAL CITIES CONSUME MOST
OF THE WORLD'S ENERGY.

6.THE MAJOR TERROR ATTACKS OF RECENT YEARS HAVE ALSO TARGETED CITIES, ESPECIALLY THOSE WITH
GLOBAL INFLUENCE. GLOBAL CITIES ARE OBVIOUS TARGETS FOR TERRORISTS DUE TO THEIR HIGH POPULATIONS
AND THEIR ROLE AS SYMBOLS OF GLOBALIZATION THAT MANY TERRORISTS DESPISE.
 GLOBAL CITIES
IN A NUTSHELL
Global cities are sites and mediums of globalization.
Through them we see the best of globalization
because they are places that create exciting fusions of
culture and ideas.They are also places that generate
tremendous wealth. However, they remain sites of
great inequality, where global servants serve global
entrepreneurs.
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DEFINING

SLUMS
According to the UN slum is defined as
areas within a city lacking clean water,
sanitation facilities, adequate living space,
durable houses and/or housing security.

 MYTH NO. 1
THERE ARE TOO MANY PEOPLE
It is believed that the reason why it is called slums is
because of many people but the real root is in outdated
institutional structures, inappropriate legal systems,
incompetent national and local governance, and short-
sighted urban development policies.
 MYTH NO. 2
THE POOR ARE TO BE BLAMED
According to this deep-seated myth, the people who live

in slums are antisocial, uneducated and unwilling to

work, or else they would not be living in such
conditions of squalor.
 MYTH NO. 3
SLUMS ARE PLACES OF CRIME, VIOLENCE AND
SOCIAL DEGRADATION
It is viewed as a place of social degradation and
despair, and of

slum-dwellers as perpetrators of
violence and crime.

 MYTH NO. 4
SLUMS ARE INEVITABLE STAGE
OF DEVELOPMENT

living eventually, just so

It reiterates that the poor will get to our standard of

long as they follow our

prescribed free market approach to development.

 MYTH NO. 5
THE FREE MARKET CAN END SLUMS
Get the inefficient government out of the way, remains

the assumption, and the beneficent power of the market

mechanism and private capital will act as the levers of

economic growth and widespread affluence.

 MYTH NO. 6
INTERNATIONAL AID IS THE ANSWER
Although additional financial resources are imperative
for upgrading slums

in developing countries, it is
doubtful that aid can successfully address the crisis in

urban housing unless there is a transformation of goals

and priorities by the major powers.

 MYTH NO. 7
THERE WILL ALWAYS BE SLUMS
In the polarized debates on urban poverty, both the

‘slums of hope’ and ‘slums of despair’ viewpoints tacitly

accept the continued existence of slums.

 HOW DOES ECONOMIC GLOBALIZATION

AFFECT GLOBAL CITIES AND SLUM AREAS
As the world continues to develop, economic globalization allows
global cities to continuously increase movement of people,
products, ideas, images, lifestyles, policies and capital.On the
other hand, Insecurities are created by globalization to people
who live in slums. Instead of prosperity and social justice,
globalization widened the gap between the rich and poor.
Examples are the conversion of their lands to cities, inability to
keep up with the fast paced innovation and inability to cope up
with the products of the market. Thus this leads to discrimination
against them. But looking at the positive side of the effect
globalization to people living in slums, it provides job
opportunities to them.
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https://www.grin.com/document/279988

https://www.britannica.com/topic/global-city

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https://www.usnews.com/news/cities/articles/2019-09-04/the-worlds-largest-slums#:~:text=
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https://sharing.org/information-centre/reports/seven-myths-%E2%80%98slums%E2%80%99-
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