Measuring the formation of world cities : The case of Shanghai

Measuring the formation of world cities : The case of Shanghai

global city, world city, globalisation, urbanisation, economics

The global shift of production activities from the developed to the developing countries, induced mainly by the explosive development of information technology (IT), has brought profound changes to the world economic system and tremendous transformations in the spatial organization of our society. Instead of a dispersed distribution of human settlements, some core cities, along with their hinterlands, have stood out functionally as the world's most important centers for gathering information, coordinating production, marketing, distribution, finance and delivering commands. To capture such fundamental changes and the accompanying new urbanization trend, the concept of world city, substantiated by Friedmann in his papers of 1982 and 1986, has been generated and developed...

However, in spite of the achievements of past studies on world cities, there are still a confusion and grounds uncovered. Particularly obvious is the lack of a systematic measurement on the formation of world cities, which is greatly needed when many cities, especially many key cities in Pacific Asia, such as Hong Kong, Singapore, Taipei, Seoul, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, Shanghai and Beijing, are aspiring to be a world city. The present thesis is thus aimed at filling the gap by devising a measuring methodology based on quantifiable indicators to chart the extent of a city in its development towards a world city.

Cai, Jianming

The University of Hong Kong

2000

Sit, Victor F. S. Supervisor

en

Thesis

http://hub.hku.hk/handle/10722/35614

http://lallier.msh-vdl.fr/theses/items/show/895

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