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• Global city


  An urban center that enjoys significant competitive advantages and that serves as a hub within a globalized economic system
• Characteristics of Global Cities

  • Economic powerhouse, dominant in finance, trade, manufacturing, or business services
  • Population size of 3 million or more
  • Storehouse of smart, educated, creative people
  • Strong economy that pays for cultural institutions like museums, universities, symphonies, and theaters
  • Magnets for tourists
  • Air and digital connectivity to the rest of the world
  • High quality of life with good public transit, environment, safety, healthcare, and local government
• The term 'global city' has its origins in research on cities carried out during the 1980s, which examined the common characteristics of the world's most important cities
• Sassen's concept of the global city

  • Emphasis on the flow of information and capital
  • Cities are major nodes in the interconnected systems of information and money
  • Wealth that flows facilitate financial institutions, consulting firms, accounting firms, law firms, and media organizations
• Four pillars of urban life in a global city (Longworth, 2015)
• Demography


  The study of a population based on factors such as age, sex, race
• Demography

  Greek word "demos" meaning "population" and "graphia" meaning "writing", so "writing about population"
• Factors studied in demography

  • Age
  • Sex
  • Race
• Types of communities studied in demography

  • Rural communities
  • Poorer districts of urban/rural communities
  • Urbanized, educated and professional families
• Demography

  Determines economic and social policies
• Urban population have grown but not necessarily because families having more children. It is rather the combination of...
• International Migration


  • 191 million people live in countries other than their own
  • The United Nations projects that over 2.2 million will move from the developing countries to the 1st world countries
• Demographic factors

  • Birth Rate
  • Life expectancy @ birth
  • Fertility rate
  • Mortality rate
  • Age dependency ratio
• Fertility rate

  Total number of children borne by a woman at a point of time during her child bearing age (15-45 yrs old)
• Age dependency ratio

  The ratio of dependent people (15 yrs old and below- 65 and above) to working age (15-65 yrs old)
• Stages of life

  • Pre-reproductive
  • Reproductive
  • Post reproductive