The Global City: A Concept Undergoing Change

Authors

  • Diane Davis
  • Gerardo Del Cerro

Keywords:

Ciudades, globalización, modelos territoriales, redes, historia urbana

Abstract

The paper takes to task the origins and development of both the concept of the Global City itself and the
fi eld of study that this brought in with it, seeing Saskia Sassen as the prime mover in both its conception
and populizing. To this end, it offers a panorama of the various analytic stand points that have contributed
to the widening of this fi eld since its beginnings, especially in the Anglo-Saxon world. A fresh look in the
light of the most recent research is taken at the principal ways of considering the Global City as these have
gone a long way towards revising and defi ning the Concept and its study. To do so, the paper classifi es these
ways by referring them to the following themes: 1) a strict considering of spatial or territorial scale as a way
of overcoming relatively schematic descriptions of the global-local relationship, 2) an emphasizing of the
link as between networks and world-wide cities to thus describe the mutual interdependence as between
such cities and multi-scaled nature of globalization as such, 3) giving ever more attention to the on-going
importance of the State and its concern with the idea of Progress when analyzing Global Cities and 4) those
efforts made to describe and explain the part played by historical development and the dependence upon
paths that have given shape to the Global City.

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Published

2009-03-30

How to Cite

Davis, D., & Del Cerro, G. (2009). The Global City: A Concept Undergoing Change. Ciudad Y Territorio Estudios Territoriales, 41(159), 31–42. Retrieved from https://recyt.fecyt.es/index.php/CyTET/article/view/75905

Issue

Vol. XLI, núm. 159 (2009)

Section

Articles

License

Copyright (c) 2009 Diane Davis, Gerardo Del Cerro

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