Metacognitive Reading Report # 5

Name: PANGIBITAN, Geojanni R. Date: September 10, 2019

The Contemporary World

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The Global City: Introducing a Concept

Title of the Article

1. Difficult Concepts (What concepts did you find difficult to understand?)

i. Worldwide Networks and Central Command Functions
ii. Centrality of the Global City
iii. Global City Model

2. Insights (What new insights or learning did you gain in discussion/ activity?)

i. Before reading the article/understanding the lesson, I thought that Global City is just
about producing a country since I myself know that I do not have a deeper
understanding of this concept and idea. However, reading the article/understanding the
lesson, I now think/realize the points and what the author wants to imply in the article.
She points out that this global city’s concept and idea focuses on the flow of data,
information, and capital. Cities play a significant and major role in the intertwined data
and money systems, and the wealth they accumulate is closely linked to the specific
companies that facilitate these flows, including financial institutions, consulting
companies, accounting companies, law firms, and media organizations. Reading the
article made me realize that these flows are no longer closely linked to domestic borders
and regulatory systems, so we can say that the global city’s dynamics are significantly
and drastically different from those of the nineteenth-century big towns.

ii. Before reading the article/understanding the lesson, I thought that when you hear the
word “media,” the discussion would be so much easier since the topic is not that
complicated and it is a simple subject matter. However, reading the
article/understanding the lesson, I now think/realize although a location is a
“worldwide town,” issues may still and may occur. From these structural facts about
global cities, there are three main trends or key tendencies. First, a wealth
 concentration in the hands of owners, associates, and experts connected in this scheme
with high-end companies. Second, the town and its region are becoming increasingly
disconnected. Lastly, the development of a big marginalized population that finds it
very difficult to earn a living on the market defined by these high-end operations. But
in my view, if we were to think of the larger image, despite these trends, it woyld be
better to be a global city.

iii. Before reading the article/understanding the lesson, I thought that being a global city
can be compared to the isolation since new communication techniques can also be
anticipated to have an effect on inequality between cities and inside cities. However,
reading the article/understanding the lesson, I now think/realize that global cities are
not yet fully formed and developed. The ability to function of these global cities’ global
firms and companies depends on a network of activities and smaller companies within
the city’s spatial scope and environment. If we were to look at if we were global cities
that would concentrate both the world’s leading sectors of capital, then every problem
a city faces is a strategic terrain for a whole series of conflicts it could face.

3. Questions (What questions would you want answers for? Or vague areas you want more
explanations about?
i. If there is a strong evidence on how to transform one place into a global city, how
can we identify if that place is no longer a global city?
ii. Which nation can we recognize as the alpha among the world’s top cities?
iii. Is it feasible to have various global cities in a nation?