Donald Nicholson-Smith, Oxford UK and Cambridge US (.)ģSuch questions are of course as open ended as the phenomenon to which they respond. 3 Henri Lefebvre, The Production of Space, trans.2 James Donald, «Metropolis: The City as Text», in R.What have been and will be the consequences of such global economic and technological inequalities? 1 How will this impact on how we imagine the city and issues of migration, diaspora, and existing geopolitical inequalities – not all global cities are equal in these terms. Most of this growth will take place in developing countries, where some 4 billion people (over half of the total) could be living in cities by 2025, compared with 1.5 billion (37%) in the early 1990s». How do the global cities of the twentieth century resemble or differ in form and function those of the past and, based on present trends, the future? In the 21st century more people than even will be living in urban environments: «Over the next thirty years, the world's urban population could double from 2.6 billion in 1995 to 5.2 billion in 2025. 1 Michel Andrieu, «The City in the Global Village», OECD Observer, no 217-218 Summer 1999.ĢWhat is the essence of the 'global' city and how has it been represented? Is it a modern phenomenon or an ancient practice? How do we define global – is globalism a consequence of mass urbanisation or does globalisation create the conditions for the emergence of the global city.
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