Abstract
The world cities concept has been the subject of vigorous debate in a prolific interdisciplinary literature for nearly a century. Generally understood to refer to leading global centers of economic and political power, it has been associated with internationally competitive urban concentrations of business, and with specialized expertise, knowledge, and finance. But specification of the dynamics of this major manifestation of global capitalism has been subject to controversy. World cities have been theorized variously as: basing points for global capital in a complex spatial hierarchy; strategic centers for globalizing advanced producer services in a new space economy; a process generating a space of flows that is superseding the mosaic space of places; a system of interconnected nodes in a world city network; or an expanding space for economic globalization in functionally interlinked, polycentric megacity regions. In an increasingly integrated and territorially competitive global economy, the power geometries and ethics of the world cities phenomenon remain contentious.
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