Add to ORKGIntroduction This chapter looks at selected cities of the ancient world and asks if any of them could be defined as “global cities”, a term from contemporary urban research. Following introductory remarks concerning definitions, source materials, perspective and research, I will examine the similarities and differences of the well-known ancient cities of Alexandria, Carthage, Babylon, Athens and Rome to present day global cities. What Makes a Global City, and What Conditions in Antiquity Requ..
The concept of the “global city” was invented in the 1990s by Saskia Sassen to describe a new type o...
Is 21st-century Rome a global city? Is it part of Europe\u27s core or periphery? This volume examine...
In this article, we analyze different approaches to the term global city and reveal the process of f...
"The world today is far less a global village than a “global city”, as global network of multidimens...
We live in the ‘urban century’. Cities all over the world - in both developing and developed countri...
Is the 'global' city an age-old historical phenomenon associated with economic, cultural, and imperi...
The article deals with the features and content of the global city concept in modern sociological th...
Cities have always been important to processes of globalization and global change, past and present....
the future. Why should researchers in this area pay attention to ancient cities? After all, modern c...
This article follows the modern definition of a city and tests its accuracy to the ancient times in ...
City generics is a research choice to explore continuities of urban process across time and space. C...
Greece and Rome were quintessentially urban societies. Ancient culture, politics and society arose a...
Global city-thinking has, in the past years, had a very real pull on society. Global cities seem an ...
While the governance of large cities around the world is of great importance it would appear that th...
© 2020 The Author(s). Published by Cambridge University Press. In our introduction to this Special I...
The concept of the “global city” was invented in the 1990s by Saskia Sassen to describe a new type o...
Is 21st-century Rome a global city? Is it part of Europe\u27s core or periphery? This volume examine...
In this article, we analyze different approaches to the term global city and reveal the process of f...
"The world today is far less a global village than a “global city”, as global network of multidimens...
We live in the ‘urban century’. Cities all over the world - in both developing and developed countri...
Is the 'global' city an age-old historical phenomenon associated with economic, cultural, and imperi...
The article deals with the features and content of the global city concept in modern sociological th...
Cities have always been important to processes of globalization and global change, past and present....
the future. Why should researchers in this area pay attention to ancient cities? After all, modern c...
This article follows the modern definition of a city and tests its accuracy to the ancient times in ...
City generics is a research choice to explore continuities of urban process across time and space. C...
Greece and Rome were quintessentially urban societies. Ancient culture, politics and society arose a...
Global city-thinking has, in the past years, had a very real pull on society. Global cities seem an ...
While the governance of large cities around the world is of great importance it would appear that th...
© 2020 The Author(s). Published by Cambridge University Press. In our introduction to this Special I...
The concept of the “global city” was invented in the 1990s by Saskia Sassen to describe a new type o...
Is 21st-century Rome a global city? Is it part of Europe\u27s core or periphery? This volume examine...
In this article, we analyze different approaches to the term global city and reveal the process of f...