World-is-spiky.pdf (Objet application/pdf) - Mozilla Firefox. Migrants, markets and multinationals: city competition. Urban areas compete with one another for people, goods, capital, ideas and other inputs of economic activity. Under the rubric of globalization, instead of only maintaining or improving the initial stock of assets in a city, the power of a place to attract outside flows of economic activity from elsewhere is increasingly important to economic development.
Similarly, global or world cities are characterized as the command and control points through which these global economic flows operate. In response to the heightened mobility of highly-skilled labor across national borders, research has begun to examine the role of international human capital as an economic flow. This paper will examine the role of places in determining where the highly-skilled go in the global economy by viewing global city command and control functions as requiring unique labor flows. Globalization and inter-city cooperation in Asia. Globalization has increased the role of a country's capital city as an agent of cross-national cooperation. The arduous task of solving urban problems can no longer be handled by a single city or viewed as the domestic affair of a nation-state that cannot be interfered by others. In Northeast Asia, the three capital city governments of Beijing, Seoul, and Tokyo have taken steps to cooperate among themselves through promoting the exchange of capital, labor, information, and technology.
This study reviews the BESETO (Beijing-Seoul-Tokyo) cooperative scheme and considers it the beginning of a cooperative model, which can ideally promote regional integration as well. It argues that the idea of BESETO is suited for the era of global and regional cooperation, which demands a higher degree of inter-city interdependency and complementarity among major urban centers in the region. From global city competition to cooperation (pdf) Quality of Life and City Competitiveness -- Rogerson 36 (56): 96. Diversity and Power in the World City Network. This Research Bulletin has been published in Cities, 19 (4), (2002), 231-241. doi:10.1016/S0264-2751(02)00020-3 Please refer to the published version when quoting the paper.
(Z) P.J. Taylor, D.R.F. Walker, G. Catalano and M. Simply by naming we homogenise the world. Diversity only implies difference but lurking behind all socially constructed differentiations there is inequality of power. This paper is primarily a presentation of empirical findings. The parameters of this study are as follows. Just as in his national scale research, for Friedmann (1978, 329) power is treated as a 'stock of resources' to be used instrumentally as 'power over' others. Power as a capacity is just one of the conceptions of power that Allen (1997) identifies. Because Sassen (1995) focuses on 'centrality', Allen (1999) identifies Castells (1996), with his concept of a 'space of flows', as better describing network power among world cities. The approach we adopt is as follows. (i)World City Connectivity. Gentrification as Global Urban Strategy. Smith.pdf (Objet application/pdf) "The Rise of the Creative Class" by Richard Florida.
Purchase Richard Florida's related book As I walked across the campus of Pittsburgh's Carnegie Mellon University one delightful spring day, I came upon a table filled with young people chatting and enjoying the spectacular weather. Several had identical blue T-shirts with "Trilogy@CMU" written across them---Trilogy being an Austin, Texas-based software company with a reputation for recruiting our top students.
I walked over to the table. "Are you guys here to recruit? " I asked. I noticed one member of the group sitting slouched over on the grass, dressed in a tank top. What a change from my own college days, just a little more than 20 years ago, when students would put on their dressiest clothes and carefully hide any counterculture tendencies to prove that they could fit in with the company. While I was interested in the change in corporate recruiting strategy, something even bigger struck me. Yet Pittsburgh's economy continues to putter along in a middling flat-line pattern.