GGRC10H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Global City, Globalization And World Cities Research Network, Contingent Work
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Thinking about some cities as global cities and some as mega cities. Need central control and command management centers. Decentralization of production has not been accompanied by decentralization of ownership. There is still a central control, but not so much control/management. Agglomeration of command functions in a few sites. i. e. global sites. The high density of businesses in the business district: for sassen this implies that face- to-face contact is still necessary. Sassen asserts that global cities are not simply cities that coordinates globalization but also make things and these things are: specialized services (advertising, accounting, business law, production of financial innovations. These productions are in turn conceived of as producer services and the global city is the advanced production site of producer services . Producer services are services that are mostly produced for firms rather than individuals. These services support production but production is broadly understood.
