文档介绍：Hong Kong as Global City
Themes and Questions
Themes:
The concept of global cities
Hong Kong as an early world city
3. From industrialization to positive non- interventionism (積極不干預主義)
4. Manhattan Dream
Three Major Aspects of Global Cities
Command Centers
transnational corporate headquarters - house the crucial institutions of economic globalization, such as, stock markets, advertising agencies and teleports.
Center of cultural hegemony- concentration of cultural festivals like music, film or dance festivals in New York.
Three Major Aspects of Global Cities
Socio-cultural infrastructure
Amin and Thrift (1994) identify three important elements:
Centers provide the face-to-face contact needed to generate collective beliefs.
New York Central Park
Three Major Aspects of Global Cities
Socio-cultural infrastructure
Centers are needed to enable social and cultural interaction, that is, to act as places of sociability, of gathering information, establishing coalitions, maintaining trust, and developing rules of behaviors.
Three Major Aspects of Global Cities
Socio-cultural infrastructure
Centers are needed to develop, test and track innovations, to provide a critical mass of knowledgeable people and socio-works.
"centers of representation, interaction and innovation"
Silicon Valley
Three Major Aspects of Global Cities
Social polarization: winners and losers
the richest and the poorest members of society
increasing capital intensity of production and large-scale immigration of foreign workers
Ghetto in New York City
Chinatown in New York City
Three Major Aspects of Global Cities
Social polarization: winners and losers
the paradoxical relationship- between the growth of finance and producer services and the increase of an informal economy in these cities
Vendor in New York City
Social polarization: winners and losers
process of professionalization vs process of polarization
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