Objectives:

• To understand Global City.

• To know the rural-urban relationship to
globalization.
• To identify the top cities or center’s.
What is the Global City?

• Also called world city or sometimes Alpha City or

world center.
• Is a City which is a primary node in the global
economic network.
• The term has focused on a city’s financial power and
high technology infrastructure with other factor’s
becoming less relevant.
The Global City
• The Rural and Urban differentiation has a significant
relationship to globalization.
• Globalization has deeply altered North-South
relations in agriculture.

North Countries: USA, Canada, Europe, Israel, Japan,

Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Australia and New
Zealand.

South Countries: Africa, Latin America and Developing

Asia including the Middle East.
• For instance, the relations of agricultural production
have been altered due to the rise of global
agribusiness and factory farms.
• The South produces non-traditional products for
exports and become increasingly dependent on
industrialized food export from the North.
• Schlosser (2005) pointed out that as commercial
agriculture replaces local provisioning , the relations
of social production are also altered. The rural
economies are exposed to low prices and mass
migration.
The three urban center’s:
1. New York
2. London
3. Tokyo • They are the economic centers
that exert control over the world
‘s political economy.
• These cities can be seen as
important nodes in a variety of
global network (Castells).
• Major beneficiaries of
globalization. (Bauman) (2003)