Emerging Global Cities provides a powerful new framework for understanding the role of peripheral cities in the world economy and how they compete for and sometimes achieve global standing.Įmerging Global Cities sets a new standard for the comparative study of cities. Portes and Armony highlight the importance of climate change to the prospects of emerging global cities, showing how the same economic system that propelled their rise now imperils their future. It contrasts them with “global hopefuls,” cities that, at one point or another, aspired to become global, and analyzes how Hong Kong is threatened with the loss of this status. The book traces the transformations of Dubai, Miami, and Singapore, identifying key features common to these emerging global cities. They identify the constellation of factors that allow certain urban places to become “emerging global cities”-centers of commerce, finance, art, and culture for entire regions. Armony demonstrate how the rapid and unexpected rise of these three cities recasts global urban studies. In this groundbreaking book, Alejandro Portes and Ariel C. The striking similarity of the skylines of Dubai, Miami, and Singapore is no coincidence: despite following different historical paths, all three have achieved newfound prominence through parallel trends. Without the same fanfare, formerly peripheral and secondary cities have been growing in importance, emerging as global cities in their own right. National Statistics Office of the Philippines, National Statistical Coordination Board (web).Certain cities-most famously New York, London, and Tokyo-have been identified as “global cities,” whose function in the world economy transcends national borders.The population figures of places are calculated by ✼ity Population« using barangays with high population density that form a contiguous area within a city or municipality.The urban population of all cities and municipalities of the Visayas that have an urban population of over 20,000 according to census results.
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