Global cities, always-changing configurations which could confirm that centrality is rather a processus than a status. On the contrary a global city may not exist without other global cities: interconnection and interdependence are stronger than disconnection.
One difference is to be made between the old empire cities and the new global cities: an empire city is, by definition, self-sufficient, concentrating all political, economic and cultural decisions of the empire it reigns over. validated city-specific data and information needed to define what exactly constitutes progress or lack of it. Los Angeles, Toronto, Sao Paolo, Paris, Frankfurt, Johannesburg, Dubai, Mumbai, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Singapore belong to this network of global cities. The United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development, took place in Quito, Ecuador from 17-20 October 2016, and was the first UN global summit on urbanization since the. New York, London and Tokyo command the global-city network in the world, that is, the cities in which the biggest number of financial and economic transactions, cultural manifestations, and “pivotal” decisions are made (hence “central functions”). In the heart of centrality, this is, indeed, the subject of the book of Saskia Sassen. Saskia Sassen, 2001 (1991), The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo.
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