Connecting cities : Networks
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Titre
Connecting cities : Networks
Sujet
, mondialisation, réseaux, infrastructures, ville mondiale, world city, global city
Description
Extract from the introduction by Chris Johnson :
Until recently cities were seen as places. Think of New York skyscrapers, the streets of Paris, the canals of Venice or Sydney Harbour.
Over the last 20 years or so a new reading of cities has emerged and that is their role as connectors of global capital or as satellites for global networks of advanced service providers. The new reading of the relevance of individual cities is based on how global they are as opposed to how local they are. This reading comes partly from the writings of Manuel Castells on the
City of Flows and the pioneering research of Saskia Sassen on
Global Cities (she framed the concept). But the role of cities as being networks of economic activity also comes from the rise of service providers in the areas of law, accounting, insurance, management, finance and design that are located everywhere. Well - perhaps not everwhere - but certainly where they see individual cities as being globally significant.
