![]() Grade 20 Author Ansgar Baums (Author) Year 2005 Pages 10 Catalog Number V38958 ISBN (eBook) 9783638378734 File size 527 KB Language English Notes Section 3 summarises the results.ĭetails Title Effects of Globalisation on City Regions College University of St Andrews Leamer/Storper called global cities the “big winners” of the Internet Age.2 But what are exactly the effects of globalisation on the functions and economy of cities? In order to examine these effects, it is useful to address two questions: (1) why do firms choose cities as a location in general? (section 2.1) and (2) how does globalisation affect this reasoning? (section 2.2). In contrast to the prediction of declining cities, globalisation seems to boost the growth of cities in a way that many scientists – influenced by the ideas of Alfred Marshall and Joseph Schumpeter started to write about “global cities”, “world-cities” or “global city-regions”. ![]() Rather, symbols of globalisation like Manhattan or Tokyo look more like Ridley Scott’s “Nighttown” in Bladerunner. ![]() On the one hand, scientists and journalists predicted “the end of the city” due to technological change, especially in the area of telecommunications – implying that an increased number of home-workers and the possibilities of video-conferences would make calm suburbs or rural areas more attractive in comparison to a grid-locked and expensive downtown area.1 Yet, whenever the abstract idea of globalisation is illustrated in newspapers or TV, it is not a suburb or the green hills of Fife that are shown. The debate about the effects of globalisation on cities is controversial.
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