Big New York, Little Syria
“It is to stand before the towers of New York and Washington, Chicago and San Francisco saying in your heart, “I am the descendant of a people that builded Damascus and Byblos, and Tyre...
“It is to stand before the towers of New York and Washington, Chicago and San Francisco saying in your heart, “I am the descendant of a people that builded Damascus and Byblos, and Tyre...
Yes, Sex and the City is about things central: Sex, of course, and New York. Sex and the City happens principally in Manhattan, and when the camera leaves Manhattan to shoot elsewhere: Brooklyn, Los Angeles...
Centrality is best manifest in the city: most of central functions in our world operate from cities. And, in our imagination, “centre” is something we find in a city or around a city: city...
In the heart of centrality, this is, indeed, the subject of the book of Saskia Sassen. New York, London and Tokyo command the global-city network in the world, that is, the cities in which the biggest number of financial and economic transactions, cultural manifestations, and “pivotal” decisions are made (hence “central functions”). Los Angeles, Toronto, Sao Paolo, Paris, Frankfurt, Johannesburg, Dubai, Mumbai, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Singapore belong to this network of global cities.