… global cities literature. The fourth part of my argument shows how the global city functions as
a … a particular element of the global city imaginary—a set of influential global city reports and …

… international trade represents, in most countries, a large percentage of GDP, and its economic,
social and political importance … a great impact on the growth of this trade. The volume of …

… mapping global cities and their networks in other fields. This article argues that global cities
… historical relationship between cities and states can illuminate the changing nature of the …

… and significance of global cities derives not simply, or even primarily, from their standing within
the global economy, but … the creation of such a global economy and replaced some of the …

… that began in the 1980s than they did in the Keynesian world of … cities, especially global
cities. Finally, while inequality has long been a feature of cities, major structural trends in today’s …

… major articulation point for one among the three super-regional blocs of the contemporary
world economy – North America, the European Union and East Asia (Taylor, 1994b). Whether …

… data about the differences among global cities that is derived from a large study of the 75
cities in the world that can be seen to function as major and minor global hubs and is based on …

… of global cities in what Fernand Braudel called la longue durée. What I argue here is that we
can only understand the significance of global cities in particular, and cities … of international …

… of literature on world-city formation and of the impact of world economic forces on …
world economic forces on cities in the' advanced industrial' countries at the core of the world-economy, …

Major cities have historically been focal points within their nations. Structures in these cities,
such as the Statue of Liberty or the Eiffel Tower, often became the icons that represented the …