What is a global city?

 What is a global city?

There are many qualities that make a city a city, but when cities become global?  In my  opinion,  there are  five factors that make a city  global,  The  first factor is the idea of globalization the process of globalization is what makes a city global.   I believe that Globalization is the process of gaining enough human capital and resources to make a normal city become global.  In other words, in order for a city to become global the city has to move up the social    ladder by achieving something so significant that it can give the city enough power and status to become noticed on a global scale, or cause cities around the world to become global, especially social institutions, to become known on a global scale. Another  factor that leads to  globalization  Is transforming cities  through their own city’s economy by making them international  as a result, of  selling and trading products with other countries  to gain power,  money, and resources  in their city to make their economy  better a good  example  of globally  international cities are Tokyo London and in Beijing.   After all, Stassen said that the third factor and the most important of Globalization is the idea of the world as a single economy and culture.   I think she talks about Globalization as being the world developing a single economy and culture as a result of improved technology and communications and the influence of very large multinational corporations.

A global, city generally is considered to be an important role in the global economic system hierarchy of importance to the operation of the global system of finance and trade. I like how Sassen  defines  global cities  as “ globalized  production  networks that  needs  new forms of financial and producer services to manage them. These services are often complex and require highly specialized skills” because this proves that all global cities are connected to  each other  and they are Interdependent and  they cannot  live on the own.  After all people are necessary  as a resource for global cities to survive.  This proves how important human capital in society is because globalization needs people with different skills, talents for society to unitize  as a resource or resources that can be used to generate economic wealth.    In my opinion, human capital is needed to make society a better and more productive  civilization that will be better for future generations to live in as a result of global cities forming.  A resource or resources that can be used to generate economic wealth As a  result, global, cities are subject to work together  with other  cities In order to combine their   economics, and  they tend to cluster in a limited number of cities. This   is because of human capital or specialized talent and firms related to different specialties can cluster in different cities, this means that there are actually a quite a few of these specialized production nodes, because they do not necessarily directly compete with each other, having different groupings of specialties.   These are the fundamentals  that make  global cities   but human  capital is not the only key force that  drives a city to become global

For example another aspect of society  that a driving force a city is a culture.

I think that culture is communication, communication is culture. this is because.  I  view communication as A way to express myself through my daily thoughts,  ideas, and opinions, feelings about the people and the world around me. In addition, I feel that communication is being able to share my knowledge with other people. Meanwhile, you can also learn and spread new ideas new information from different people every day about life, and myself, through any form of mass media, and talking to people.  There are many forms of communication.  Communication does not have to be verbal as long as you get the message across to people.  I think that using body language through facial expressions can convey your mood and emotions better than verbal communication.  In my opinion, any way to send, spread and share new ideas or a single message to a person or a group of people and be able to maintain contact with them is communication.   .   After reading Chapter one in Global cities I realized that in communication sometimes the symbols can be very important to the messages that you want to convey In a culture of a city and how you want others to perceive you in society.  For example,  in Chapter one in Global soul, Iyer talks about two situations with a Vietnamese woman who changed how she saw herself when she was talking to different people.   In the first story, the Vietnamese woman Is talking  to another  Vietnamese women so as a result,  she plays the role of being proud of Vietnamese heritage to make a good impression on the other Vietnamese women.  On the other hand   when the woman was talking an another American friend, she wanted to give that person a completely different impression so she said “I was only born in Vietnam.   But I do consider myself a Vietnamese person,  but I am an American citizen “( pg 25) .In other words, how you send a message is a message and it can be more important than your original message We would not have global cities without the concept of culture that is why I think   he spends two chapters talking about culture in society  This is because there are two types of cultures in society today in order to have global cites  there are a business culture and traditional culture.  These two     cultures in society used to be more separate but now   the  business  aspect of culture has become  more  dominant in society  because it is more fluid, in addition,         the  business  aspect of culture is important to branding a city   enterprises  examples sports or a type of food . As a result,  there has been a shift in how to understand and reflect culture . Both business culture and traditional   culture play a role in our daily life they are both interdependent to the function of global cities because  both aspects of cultures together reflect social norms beliefs, values, attitudes, meanings, hierarchies, religion, notions of time, roles, spatial relations, concepts of the universe, and material objects and possessions acquired by a group of people in the course of generations through individual and group striving.

There are many different aspects of culture that make up a society including subcultures and counter cultures. For example  in my opinion,  The Amish society and terrorism, which I hate to say it but, they are both counter cultures, although terrorism is very extreme than Amish culture because it is an opposite complete way of life that is detrimental to American culture,     Society is a number of complex social events.    These social events ARE an important   aspect to the globalization of a city with regard To culture, I like how Abrahamson   defines culture as a way of communicating in a city He defines culture as The way knowledge is  cumulative  human experience, beliefs, values, attitudes, meanings, hierarchies, religion, notions of time, roles, spatial relations, concepts of the universe, and material objects and possessions acquired by a group of people in the course of generations through individual and group striving.  ( pg 83   Society has 2 views of culture  a traditional  culture and a global supermarket  culture both are essential to the diversity of life, simulation of activities, exchange of goods products and communication with a group of people who make a city become unique and global. A traditional view of culture means that  beliefs and social norms values in society  are from the grandparents generation   in my opinion, this means that traditional values are kept the way that  they used to be in society  this is important because all cities  start out the same way and grow to be global .on the other hand a  global supermarket  culture means that  there is a separate culture created only for the expansion and development of global cities around the world  which means there is a business network that uses our current culture to make more exchange of good s come into the city and frame the local aspect to become global. This is THE  toggle switch  WHAT comes in b to the city because  it not only  impacts the rate but it controls what comes in  come into the cities  meaning what values do we emphasize  in the global cities  the fast new  technology goods  or  do global cities need to abandon traditional values in society to stay popular. As a result, this determines a city’s cultural identity which depends on how much diversity the city has been exposed to.  This leads to the city ‘s ability to roleplay in other words how cities represent themselves in society according to what they want to sell about themselves  so they integrate ideas or products  to exchange with other people making global cities an open or closed business networks system