Part 1 is focused on unpacking the processes of becoming and governing emerging “global cities.” It involves fieldwork activities in Sydney and Dubai, and comparative analysis between these cities and the case of London.
To redress these limits, the project consists of two parts. Likewise, academic research on global cities has to date offered little self-reflexive analysis of the growing popularity and expanding interdisciplinarity of this term. However, what remains relatively overlooked in both research and practices the process of becoming: if the ‘global city’ is a common object of discussion, empirical application, and even fascination in the contemporary scholarship, less so can be argued for the dynamics and nature of the process that leads to the emergence of global cities. What does it mean to be and become a ‘global city’? Several scholars have to date investigated the nature of popular metropolises like New York, London or Tokyo, presenting the academic public with accounts of the socio-economic characteristics of these easily recognizable cities. This project was funded by support from the Centre for Studies in Property Valuation and Management Trust with matched funding from Oxford Martin School, and previous fieldwork support from the Australian National University’s Vice Chancellor and the International Alliance of Research Universities(IARU). What does it mean to be a “global city”? What is the state of the art in understanding this term in urban studies? How do contemporary metropolises become “global cities”? Is there a recipe for ‘making’ growing urban centres into the strategic hinges of globalization? Focusing on the evolution of global city research and on the pathways to global city formation, this project, developed by the Institute for Science, Innovation and Society (InSIS) in collaboration with the Urban Research Program (URP) at Griffith University, Australia, and led by Michele Acuto, seeks to unpack and analyze the evolution and governance of contemporary global cities.
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