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Title: The Development of A Global City - Components of National and Global Competition Within Cities. The New York Case Study.
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Publication Year: 2000
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Abstract: With the upcoming of globalization processes and new technologies economic competition between different areas has intensified. High competition exists both between focal peripheral areas and global city centers as well as within the participating city systems of global actions. As a global city of highest or-der, New Pork plays an important role in these processes. But New Pork did not have this position right away. It had to acquire its power through a continuous process of using its natural advantages, mastering competition with other cities and coping with its internal problems - a struggle which lasted for the last two centuries and still continues. The importance of New York's harbor as a trade center, its pole position in gaining new knowledge through modern telecommunications, an innovative press, the location of industry, headquarters and celebrities, together with an endless flow of new immigrants of all kinds of cultural and social backgrounds, have contributed to making New York City the city of knowledge and information, money and commerce, advertising and media, arts and culture - in spite of some political and fiscal shortages and deficiencies in its infrastructure. As in the past, effects of self-reinforcement and an openness to innovation are likely to ensure that New Yolk will keep this position in the 21(st) century as well.
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Authors: Gamerith, W; Messow, E
Periodical (Full): Mitteilungen der Osterreichischen Geographischen Gesellschaft
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Volume: 142
Pages: 239-268
Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Other
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