global city
global city · global cities
A city that serves as a primary node in the global economic networkA city that serves as a primary node in the global economic network; a metropolis.
» Due to global warming, cities could be completely submerged.
Meaning
1 sensesA city that serves as a primary node in the global economic network; a metropolis.
Examples
3 sentencesDue to global warming, cities could be completely submerged.
By the middle of this century, 68 percent of the world will be urbanized, adding 2½ billion people to global cities.
Can Algiers become a global city?
Translations
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Popularized by Dutch-American sociologist Saskia Sassen in The Global City: New York, LondPopularized by Dutch-American sociologist Saskia Sassen in The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo (1991).
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Forms
plural: global cities| Singular | global city |
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Word family
1 related wordsRelatedglobal order