The bigger and more powerful the global city, the bigger and more mobilized its slums.
As I wrote earlier in this Megacities series, the bigger the Global City, the bigger its Global Slum.
This type of manufacturing and crafts work is today a key connection between the global city and the global slum.
Much of England has become a hinterland for the global city.
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.
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City council leader Gordon Matheson said Glasgow's confirmation as host city marked "the first step in positioning the city as the global home of street dance over the next three years".
London goes to work in the middle of the global trading day: the City day starts just as Asia's financial markets are closing and its financiers are still at their desks when the New York market opens.
We should be wary of assuming that the offshore trade in renminbi out of Hong Kong is the first step on the road to the yuan as a major global currency, with the City taking a big piece of the action.
Thursday's concert opened the third Manchester International Festival, which aims to put the city on the global cultural map by hosting new works by respected performers.
As a city, Buenos Aires gives us an unusually clear picture of the two core aspects of global city development.
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For all the weakness of British banks, and the pressure they face to shrink - which saw Royal Bank of Scotland last week announcing a significant reduction in the size of its global investment banking operations - the City in a wider sense is still expanding.
The Birmingham City chairman told BBC Sport the global popularity of the English league is feeding the trend as clubs can now afford the world's best.
Over the next four years the Brazilian city will be a global hub of sport as it hosts the soccer World Cup in two years and the Olympic Games in 2016.
Well, this morning, McCain attended, as scheduled, the Clinton Global Initiative in New York City, where he called for lawmakers to put politics aside while crafting the bailout plan.
As well as being the first such center set up by the French-based global bank in its home city, it is also the first devoted to the specific business model of hedge funds and their management structure.
The prime minister argues that signing up without the safeguards he wanted would have allowed the eurozone to dictate new rules which would have damaged the City of London as a global financial capital.
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Joel Kotkin is executive editor of newgeography.com and author of The City: A Global History.
It is also possible that being outside an increasingly integrated European Union would fundamentally undermine the City as a global financial centre and cause many global businesses to quit the UK. All of this is worth debating, and no doubt will be, here and elsewhere, in the years to come.
The visual orders of global cities make the articulations between different sectors of a city invisible.
But in this global city today, the big real estate buyers are all from abroad.
It was an effort to turn Cairo into a "global city" along the lines of its flashy neighbor Dubai.
The Klipsch Music Center product line commemorates the brand's partnership with Live Nation Entertainment and its sponsorship of the Klipsch Music Center amphitheater-one of the five most ticketed live music venues in the world-in its global headquarter city of Indianapolis.
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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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Again, the prepared traveler should check the company's Web site for details on exactly where the phones work, as coverage can vary city to city, based on the carrier's global roaming agreements.
Who better than the bard to highlight London as a global city where more than 250 languages are spoken?
And international financial activity will remain sluggish for some time because multinationals are not, in general, indulging in the global empire-building that gave the City so much work in the good times.
The worst recession the City has ever known is the result not merely of a slow global economy, falling stockmarkets, or the prospect of war though all play their part.
Over the past 20 years, London turned itself into a truly global financial centre, luring world-class companies to the City to raise capital.
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