Renn notes that over the past decade or so “the game has changed. Advanced Producer/Services Production Node.After offering a survey history of the term’s evolving definitions, he identifies four basic ways to look at global cities that include: Renn published a thoughtful essay on “ What Is A Global City?” on the website New Geography. The idea of the Global City was originally and most clearly articulated by Saskia Sassen in her book, The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo published in September, 2001. Here’s a rough 20 year timeline I hacked together for a lecture I gave recently at NYU: It’s a done deal, get with the program, this has been happening for over twenty years and really kicked into gear in 2004. A recent Facebook conversation about the proposed plans for the WTC PAC brought the performing arts sectors’ lack of systemic understanding glaringly to light, most notably that so many Facebook commenters focused on the idea that NYC was becoming a Global City.
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