A first major reason for the sometimes-fuzzy character of the “global/world city” literature is that that there have been earlier, related uses of these terms. This entry provides a bibliographic introduction to this wide-ranging and sometimes seemingly incoherent literature.
This is indicated by the wide range of terms used to describe cities, whereby over the last couple of decades “global cities” and “world cities” have gradually become key-yet contested-concepts. Large and significant cities have fascinated researchers over the last century.
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