New York a Global city

New York, a global city?

« The global city and the network of these cities is a space that is both placecentered in that it is embedded in particular and strategic locations; and it is transterritorial because it connects sites that are not geographically proximate yet are intensely connected to each other. If we consider that global cities concentrate both the leading sectors of global capital and a growing share of disadvantaged populations (immigrants, many of the disadvantaged women, people of color generally, and, in the megacities of developing countries, masses of shanty dwellers) then we can see that cities have become a strategic terrain for a whole series of conflicts and contradictions. We can then think of cities also as one of the sites for the contradictions of the globalization of capital, even though, heeding Katzelson's observation, the city cannot be reduced to this dynamic. »

• SASSEN, Saskia, « The Global City: Introducing a Concept », Brown Journal of World Affairs, Winter/spring 2005, Volume XI, Issue 2, p.39, http://www.saskiasassen.com/pdfs/publications/the-global-city-brown.pdf

a global metropolis

*Global Power City Index (GPCI) - Institute for Urban Strategies (mori-m-foundation.or.jp) Global Power City Index (GPCI) - Institute for Urban Strategies (mori-m-foundation.or.jp)

population of New York in 2020 is 20.1692 Million.