global city

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A city that serves as a primary node in the global economic network; a metropolis.
    — Today's global cities have been empowered and transformed by the construction of a market economy at a global scale. In this sense, I would argue, the global city must be seen as primarily a political phenomenon.

词形变化

global cities plural

词源

Popularized by Dutch-American sociologist Saskia Sassen in The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo (1991).
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