There are three basic categories of criteria people use in defining global cities: economic function, non-economic function, and size. This framework seeks to capture in a structured manner all the ways people talk about global cities that I’m aware of. In wrestling with the global city idea while working on the global city study I did some research for, I put together this framework to help organize our thinking. While it’s very important and useful, I don’t think it fully captures what the average person or urbanist thinks of on the topic. Only the Sassen based one appeared to have a robust definition and theoretical basis, but it’s a pretty narrow definition. I looked at the criteria used in various prominent studies back in 2012 and found them highly divergent. But the definitions of global cities are incredibly varied and there doesn’t seem to be a consensus or well-defined way to think about. Global cities are like that famous quip on obscenity: we know one when we see it. This is a concept in development, so I’m going to open this post up to comments.
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