THE GLOBAL CITY

REPORTERS SLIDES
1. Danica Ingente 2- 10
2. Maria Mikaella Maglangit 11- 19
3. Jam Marie Balaquinto 20-26
4. Apple Grace Padilla 27-35
5. Queeni Ann Domenios 36-44
Had you traveled to any global
cities?
Not all people have been to global
cities, but most know about them.
Why Study Global
City?
REPORTER: DANICA INGENTE
Globalization is
spatial
 Globalization is spatial
means 2 things:
1. It occurs in physical spaces.

2. What makes it move is the fact that it is based

in places.
Globalization is spatial because it
occurs in physical spaces.
 Globalization is spatial because
what makes it move is the fact that
it is based in places.
Cities act on globalization and
globalization acts on cities.
Cities are sites as well as mediums
of globalization.
DEFINING THE
Global City
REPORTER: MARIA MIKAELLA M.
MAGLANGIT
Global City
►is a significant production point of
specialized financial and producer
services that make globalized economy
run.
Saskia Sassen (1990)

► popularized the term “ Global City”

► an emphasis on the flow of

information and capital.
 3 Global Cities
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► New York – New York Stock Exchange

► Exchange
London – Financial Times Stock

► Tokyo – Nikkei
Other cities considered as a
Global City
Los Angeles - The Movie Making Mecca
►
 San Francisco – Home of the most powerful
► internet companies.
 Shanghai Stock Exchange - largest stock market in
► the world.

Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou – centers of trade

► and finance in China.
► Sydney and Melbourne
Indicators for
GLOBALITY

REPORTER: JAM MARIE BALAQUINTO

Economic power
- Condition of having
sufficient productive
resources at command that
give the capacity to make and
enforce economic decisions,
such as allocation of
resources and apportioning of
goods and services.
 Economic Opportunity
- Economic opportunity is a chance to improve financial
conditions.
Ex.
A person gets an economic opportunity when he gets
a better paying job.
 Economic
Competitiveness
- acc. to The World
Economic Forum, the
set of institutions,
policies and factors that
determine the level of
productivity of a
country
 Center of
Authority
- The power or right to
give orders, make
decisions, and enforce
obedience.
Political Influence
- The ability of private individuals and groups to
influence, condition, shape, and thereby control the
authoritative decisions and actions of those who
possess the formal-legal authority to take these
decisions and actions.
Cultural Power
- According to Lull, it is ‘ the ability to define a
situation culturally. By cultural power, individual or
groups produce meanings to construct ways of life.’
The Challenges of
Global Cities
REPORTER: APPLE GRACE PADILLA
 Global cities conjure up images of fast-paced, exiting,
cosmopolitan lifestyle. But such descriptions are lacking.
Global cities also have their undersides. They can be sites of
great inequality and poverty as well as tremendous violence.
Like the broader processes of globalization, global cities create
winners and losers.
 Based on the of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs
these are the pathologies of the Global City.
( According to Richard Florida)
Cities with extensive public transportation systems,
people tend to drive less and thereby cut carbon emissions.
Like New York and Tokyo.
 Cities like Los Angeles are urban sprawls, with massive free
ways that force residents to spend money on cars and gas.

Cities like manila, Bangkok, and Mumbai are dense, their

lack of public transportation and their governments’ inability to
regulate their car industries have made them extremely
polluted.
 More importantly, because of the sheer size of
city populations across the world, it is not
surprising that urban areas consume most of the
world’s energy. Cities only cover 2 percent of
world landmass, but they consume 78 percent of
global energy. Therefore, carbon emissions must
be cut to prevent global warming.  
 Shipping foods through trains, busses and even
planes increase carbon emissions. But there is
solution like so called “vertical farms “ Built in
abandoned buildings (as increasingly being done in
New York) may lead the way towards more
environmentally sustainable cities.

The major terror attacks of recent years have also

targeted cities.
 The major terror attacks of recent
years have also targeted cities. Cities,
especially those with global influence,
are obvious targets for terrorists due to
their high populations and their role as
symbols of globalization that many
terrorists despise.
THE GLOBAL
CITY AND THE
POOR

REPORTER: QUEENI ANN DOMENIOS

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E
As cities attracts more N
T
capital and richer residents, R
real estate prices go up and I
F
poor residents are forced to I
relocate to far away but C
A
cheaper areas. T
I
O
N
POOR PEOPLE WERE
FORCED TO MOVE FAR
AWAY FROM CITY
CENTERS THAT OFFER
MORE JOBS, MORE
GOVERNMENT
SERVICES, AND BETTER
TRANSPORTATION.
GLOBALIZATION CREATES
HIGH-INCOME JOBS THAT ARE
CONCENTRATED IN GLOBAL CITIES.
Middle class is thinning and many middle-
income jobs in manufacturing and business
process outsourcing are moving to other
countries.
CONCLUSION
Through global cities, one can see the best
globalization. They are the places that create
exiting fusions of culture and ideas. HOWEVER,
they remain sites of great inequality.
Thank you!