THE GLOBAL

CITIES

PROFESSOR : DR. RENA V. TEJADA

ADAPTED: DON SISLES
 Global Cities
Economic centers that
exert control over the
world’s political
economy
Categorized as such
Seen as important
based on the global
nodes in a variety of
reach of organizations
global networks
found in them
 Poster Making
Instruction:
With your ideal global city in mind, draw a
poster of how it looks like. Have a short
description of your poster to be discussed in
class.
 FACTORS POSSESS BY GLOBAL CITIES

Business activity Human capital

Cultural experiences that help organizations

and people to thrive
Information
Political Engagement
exchange
Human
capital
-knowledge, competence,
and ability of people to
perform various jobs
- ability to do labor
Business
activity

-include any activity engaged

in the primary purpose of
making a profit
 Political
engagement - A cognitive process/
attitudinal reaction which
serves as a necessary
precursor for political
participation and thus
important for a vibrant civic
culture
Information
exchange
Bidirectional information transfer
in telecommunications and
computer science or
communication seen from a
system-theoretic or information-
theoretic point of view
 Economic size
and growth
City’s
competitiveness Business and
regulatory
environment
Quality of human
capital and cultural
aspects
 City’s
competitiveness
The demonstrated ability
to attract capital, business,
talents and visitors
Global Cities Index, Rank and Score
 THE GLOBAL CITIES

US and European
cities are the world’s Asia’s economic rise
most competitive is reflected in the
today, despite economic
concerns over ageing competitiveness of
infrastructure and its cities
large budget deficits
 THE GLOBAL CITIES

The most significant

A “middle tier” of advantage that
mid-size cities is developed country
emerging as a key cities hold is their
driver of global ability to develop
growth and attract the
world’s top talent
 THE GLOBAL CITIES

Infrastructure
investments will drive
African and Latin
emerging market
American cities lag
growth, but more will
most on
be needed to secure
competitiveness
their attractiveness
to tomorrow’s talent
THE GLOBAL CITIES

Cities of all sizes can

be competitive, but
density is a factor in
the competitiveness
of larger cities
SINGAPORE: ASIA’S MOST
“grow first and clean-up
COMPETITIVE CITY
later”
Efficient transport “beyond a certain point
Lean bureaucracy they realize there is too
much pollution, and
Safe and clean they end up turning
environment away people and
High international investors”
reputation -Mr. Khoo, Singapore’s Center for
Livable Cities, Executive Director
 Inequalities exists
between these cities

Inequalities exists
within each city
“Although cities are
major beneficiaries of
globalization, they are
also the most severely
affected by global
problems.” (Bauman,
2003)