This is different because this is something that is happening simultaneously in long-distance digital networks and in a very, very concentrated space.” The kind of urban space that the contemporary period makes possible is different - because of the simultaneity, the instantaneousness of the communication - from any older period where you always had cities connected to each other. In that sense it is different from the capitals of old empires where you have one city at the top. The global city is a function of a network of cities. “I like to emphasize that there is no such thing as one global city.
A professor at Columbia University, she recently wrote an article in Newsweek that looked at the expanding network of global cities and “why Europe and Asia are overtaking America in the race to create new hubs of world commerce.” Sassen has been developing her analysis of the global city and global networks for more than a decade. She wrote the classic book on the topic, The Global City, which you might consider reading. As we discuss what makes Hong Kong a global city and what makes the SAR globally competitive, we should consider the work of Saskia Sassen, the leading authority on the concept of the global city.
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