The bigger and more powerful the global city, the bigger and more mobilized its slums.
But in this global city today, the big real estate buyers are all from abroad.
As I wrote earlier in this Megacities series, the bigger the Global City, the bigger its Global Slum.
Can work from any location such as HQ, home or field offices that are in every major global city.
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It was an effort to turn Cairo into a "global city" along the lines of its flashy neighbor Dubai.
Who better than the bard to highlight London as a global city where more than 250 languages are spoken?
This type of manufacturing and crafts work is today a key connection between the global city and the global slum.
In its most extreme format, each global city has a global slum, either next to it or in its center.
Sean McKee, director of policy at London Chamber of Commerce, said London is a "global city in an island economy".
As a city, Buenos Aires gives us an unusually clear picture of the two core aspects of global city development.
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The Olympics has turned from a celebration of a global city to a marketing pitch from an economy desperate for growth.
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London, already a global city in 2001, became more so, with its boroughs holding all the places in the diversity top 10.
They are crucial to Hong Kong's standing as a truly global city.
It is Britain's economic and cultural powerhouse, Europe's only properly global city and a magnet for rich and poor, from anywhere and everywhere.
Much of England has become a hinterland for the global city.
"We may well see Sydney becoming an increasingly global city as it proves attractive to new and expanding business on the Pacific Rim, " the report said.
"New York is a legendary sports town, as well as a thriving global city with a rapidly expanding soccer fan-base, " Manchester City chief executive Ferran Soriano said in a statement.
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As a new independent global city state, joining Singapore and Dubai, and soon to be joined by Shanghai and others, London would be controlling its own destiny at the centre of a future club of truly global nations.
Spurred by the success of the first celebration, the Turkish city of Istanbul will be the global host city of the second International Jazz Day, on 30 April.
Jeju is developing a global education city for multi-lingual education for children.
Chicago's other great claim to global-city fame rests on the dominance of its exchanges in the world trading of futures and derivatives.
The product line commemorates the brand's partnership with Live Nation Entertainment and its sponsorship of the Klipsch Music Center amphitheater in its global headquarter city of Indianapolis.
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How Race, Religion and Identity Determine Success in the New Global Economy and The City: A Global History.
To market the twin volumes, Taschen is selling T-shirts, tote bags, diaries and posters the book publisher's first nonbook products in its 33-year history to accompany Mr. Salgado's 23-city global traveling exhibition of roughly 250 "Genesis" photographs.
To market the twin volumes, Taschen is selling T-shirts, tote bags, diaries and posters the book publisher's first nonbook products in its 28-year history to accompany Mr. Salgado's 23-city global traveling exhibition of roughly 250 "Genesis" photographs.
More than 350 leading college entrepreneurs and 150 world leaders gathered at the Kairos Global Summit in New York City earlier this year to collaborate and create innovations and business models that address key global issues, including clean water, the global financial crisis, energy consumption, natural disasters, healthcare and more.
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Author of The City: A Global History, he is finishing a book on the American future.
Joel Kotkin is executive editor of newgeography.com and author of The City: A Global History.
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