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Criticims of global cities rankings2/19/2024 ![]() These insights are joined together with the author’s own observations and information from secondary sources. His analysis draws on 170 qualitative, semi-structured interviews with the elite involved in global city-making. 7).Īcuto explores the imagination that drives the development of Dubai, Singapore and Sydney-the three cities he concentrates on. continually translated in the tangible practices that politicians, developers, planners, and many others perform to quite literally build the urban hubs of our planet’ (p. The author is right to point out that the term global city ‘is a shorthand for a complex … imagination that spurs not only a global sense of place but also its underlying debates about the desirability … of cities becoming globalized. ![]() This is the focus of How to Build a Global City by Michele Acuto. Countless cities worldwide pursue surprisingly similar strategies of growth and internationalization against the backdrop of a vision to become global. ![]()
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