What are global cities, and what are their roles in the construction of nations?
In much of the literature, global cities have been characterized as networked nodes, with multiple and intensive global flows of people, goods, services, ideas, and images.
Global cities often share more in common, have more to do with, and identify more with other global cities than with other cities and hinterlands in their own countries.
Given these myriad outward linkages and external positioning, the question arises are efforts at attaining global city status at odds with projects of nationhood, which essentially emphasize the building of internal ties? I invite the reader to pause and keep this question in mind for a moment.
