Global City (final exam) Flashcards
(32 cards)
______________ is spatial because it occurs in physical spaces.
Globalization
Globalization is _______ because what makes it move is the fact that it is based in places.
spatial
___________, the home of Hollywood is where the movies are made for global consumption.
. Los Angeles
The main headquarters of Sony is in ________, and from there, the company coordinates the sale of its various electronics goods to branches across the world.
Tokyo
In other words, cities act on __________and globalization acts on _____.
globalization
cities
In 1950, only _____ percent of the world lived in _____ areas
30
urban
By 2014, the number increased to _____ percent. And by 2050, it is expected to reach ____ percent.
54
66
Sociologist ______ popularized the term “global city” in the 1990s.
Saskia Sassen
Sociologist Saskia Sassen popularized the term “__________” in the 1990s.
global city
Her criteria for what constitute a global city were primarily ________.
economic
Saskia Sassen initially identified three global cities
New Yor
London
Tokyo
________, _______, and _____, all of which are hubs of global finance and capitalism.
New York
London
Tokyo
They are the homes, for instance, of the world’s top _______ where investors buy and sell shares in major corporations
stock exchanges
New York has the__________
New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)
London has the __________
Financial Times Stock Exchange (FTSE)
Tokyo has the ________
Nikkei
The value of shares traded in the NYSE, for example, is _______billion dollars, while that of the shares in the Philippine Stock Exchange is only ______ billion dollars.
19, 300
231.3
Others consider some cites “global” simply because they are______ to live in.
great places
______ is described as Sydney’s rival “global city” because many magazines and lists have now referred to it as the world’s “ most livable city”- a place with good public transportation, a thriving cultural scene, and a relatively easy pace of life.
Melbourne
The foremost characteristic is ________
economic power
Sassen (1991) remains correct in saying that economic power largely determines _________are ________.
which cities
global
________ may have the largest stock market in the world but _____ houses the greatest number of corporate headquarters
New York
Tokyo
_______ has the world’s busiest container port, moving over 33 million container units in 2013.
Shanghai
Many of the top _________ and engineers from Asia have moved to the San Francisco Bay Area to become some of the key figures in Silicon Valley’s technology boom.
IT programmers
