Cities Without Borders

An anonymous reader writes "There is a very interesting article about Cities Without Borders in the latest issue of Mindjack. The author, Paul Hartzog, argues that we are seeing the emergency of 'global cities' concentrating command-and-control functions for the global economy. For instance, the increasing importance of certain cities such as New York, London, Tokyo, Frankfurt, Sydney or Miami shows they not only support complex webs of businesses but also participate in a global network for the production and distribution of finance and capital. This is just one example. You should read the original article to see if you agree with the author -- or not."

Comments

Civ

[mirko]

I first thought of Civilization (Sid Meier's) where you have to acquire city walls to protect your fellow citizens from invaders...
Once you get a proper air defense system, these become obsolete.
But no, it just looks to be more about the demise of ruralship and the slow disappearing of intermediate management : info no gets directly from the ground up and vice versa.

Iconoclast!

[Anonymous Coward]

You should read the original article to see if you agree with the author -- or not.

Have you no respect for tradition?

Re:Why is Sydney oden that list?

[CommunistTroll]

So tell me, what's the weather like in Melbourne nowdays?

Re:Quite obvious

[Anonymous Coward]

context of formulation of the subject at hand [...] The spatial ontology [...] predicated on the artificially constructed boundaries [...] transcend geographical borders

You're a liberal arts major, aren't you?

Re:Actually it is the local government

[Duncan3]

and.. it's as far as you can get from Quebec!