Major Challenges of Global Cities

1. Have more interconnectedness with other cities and across a transnational field of action
than with the national economy.
-Globalization is the connection of different parts of the world. The results in the
expansion of international cultural, economic, and political activities. As people, ideas,
knowledge, and goods move more easily around the globe, the experiences of people around
the world .

2. Many of the same characteristics because of their connectedness and shared experiences of
globalization. They all exhibit clear signs of deindustrialization.

3. They possess the concentration of financial and service industries within their spatial
boundaries, as well as the concentration of large pools of labor.
-it hold the financial and service industries within its own borders, and it helps to create
jobs for its citizens
4. Many also share experiences of class and ethnic conflict.
-Many of them have also dealt with issues of class and ethnic conflict.

5. They often have segmented labor markets in which employees of key industries enjoy well-
paid and consumerist lifestyles while a lower stratum of workers or staffs are less well-
paid, more precarious, and less attractive positions within the urban economy.
-They often have labor market segments where employees of major industries enjoy
well -paid and consumerist lifestyles while a lower stratum of workers or staff is lower paid,
more risky, and less attractive positions within the city’s economy.

6. Promotion of global cities runs the risk of economically marginalizing non-urban

populations within the national economy.
-the rise of the global cities has been linked with two globalization the first one is
the expansion of the role of transitional corporation in global and the second one is the
declination of the of the mass

7. They caused numerous congestions in transports and life in metropolis is also expensive.
-example in the philippines the low quality of existing infrastructure such as the
roads,public transportation of terminals and railways

8. Pollution of the air, particularly in the center of these cities.

-Because of lot of change and upgrdaes of technologies they produce lot of products
coming from raw materials and by doing so yhey need lot manufacturers like big factories to
create products and it causes bulk smokes which is very harmful and can pollute the air or
worse it can damage the atmosphere