Synthese Espaces Et Echanges

Introduction:

A global city is a city having a strategic position in diverse domains, mainly

economic, political and cultural at the world level and establishing a dynamic node

of communications. Global cities as London, the second world city after New York,

is the leaders in the world as well as on the international market. To sum up,

according to the definition of the Saskia Sassen, a global city is “one that tangibly

influences global affairs in terms of politics, culture, and various socio-economic

means.” This year we studied spaces and exchanges, that is why it is interesting to

ask us how global cities, as geographical spaces, can have an impact on the people

and exchanges.

First of all, I will look at the impact of global cities on people everyday lives,

before to mention the diversity and exchanges, and then, the future of global cities.

The global cities have real impacts positive as well as negative on the

population in everyday lives.

At first, the positive aspects of a global city are obvious. The inhabitants have

access to numerous services. Indeed, the strong economic development that knows

the global cities, which are leaders in the economic world, allow these cities to

invest in diverse infrastructures. Equally, the access to culture is another major

positive aspect of the global cities, which propose a quality education on account of

their world-class universities.

However, the global cities know important negative impacts for their

population. The most problematic of them are the pollution owed essentially to an

overcrowded population.

For instance, during the Great Smog due to the factories pollution in 1952, the

inhabitants of London were irritable, even knew health problems because of the

unbreathable sight.

The global cities have an impact on exchanges, and also on diversity.

First of all, the urban space encourages various forms of exchanges whether

it is exchanges, cultural, ethnics or still linguistic. The cultural diversity due to the

multiethnic dimension of the global cities allows a real opening on the world.

Indeed, thanks to a high level of human development, the global cities are a magnet

for the foreigners who can, for example, be attracted by jobs opportunities. Indeed

in Singapore, according to Yearbook of Statistics

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