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how many levels of hierarchy of cites around the world are there? |
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global cites aka world cites |
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places that have the most important trade in the world take place. |
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global cities occur mostly in _________ countries |
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who wrote the book "cities and evolution" and used the word "global cites"? |
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What year did Patrick Geddes coin the term "global cities"? |
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how did Patrick Geddes define global cites? |
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places with the most important economic acitivity in the world |
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how many charachteristcs of global cites are there? |
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what are the first 3 characterics of global cities |
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1) control over production of news information & culture. 2) notable economic and spatial segregation 3) large population |
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what are the 4,5,6 characterists of global cities? |
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4) increased political conflict over urban growth and class conflict 5) major centers of political power 6) high level of influence on global economy |
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what are the 7,8,9 characterists of global cities? |
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7) young professionals decide where they want to live there 8) enertainment centers 9) very unique cityscape |
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Chacteristic #1: try to be home of ________ ________ |
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Chacteristic #1: known by their ________ ________ |
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first name (paris not paris, france) |
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Chacteristic #2: many global cites are _________ their older parts of their cities |
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Chacteristic #2: extremely ________ & extremely ________ |
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Chacteristic #2: often extreme center for ________ |
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Chacteristic #3: The larges cites in the world are? |
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Chacteristic #5: sometimes they are their countries ________ |
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Chacteristic #5: sometimes are hosts to ___________ |
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headquarters (labor unions, international groups, banks) |
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Chacteristic #6: often ________ cities |
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Chacteristic #6: good _________ linkages |
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transportation (international airports) |
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Chacteristic #6: well developed ________ _________ ________ |
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Chacteristic #6: many _________ functions |
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financial (stock exchanges) |
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Chacteristic #9: well-known __________ |
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Chacteristic #9: what global city is trying to improve it's skyline? |
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usually the three global cities at the top? |
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largest city economically since 1825 |
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when did Tokyo really grow? |
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what global city is usually 4th? |
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Tokyo's economic strength has been weakening since the _____________ |
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what are the 4 levels of cities around the world |
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1) global cities 2) regional command and control centers 3) specialized producer-service centers 4) dependent centers |
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regional command and control centers typically have? |
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headquarters for corporations (national or regional branch) |
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Regional command and control centers usually have a strong ________ sector |
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regional command and control center have clusters of __________ and ___________ facilities. |
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3 examples of regional command and regional centers |
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atlanta, dallas and philadephia |
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specialized producer - sevice centers |
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dependent on top two tiers for banking and advertisng |
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what are two examples of specialized producer - service center cites specializing in one thing |
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pittsburgh - steel San Jose - tech |
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what do dependent centers focus on? |
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2 enertainment examples of dependent centers |
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dependent center mining oriented community |
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2 examples of military oriented places in dependent centers |
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