![]() ![]() It is generally accepted that Hong Kong is a “Cultural Desert” with a lack of cultural activities and ambience and merely around 1% of government expenditure on cultural development. Local culture tends to disappear against the backcloth of globalization. John Tomlinson, a professor at the University of Braolford, publishes a journal-Globalization and Cultural Identity ( .uk/global/pdf/gtreader2etomlinson.pdf) which has an argument that globalization damages the cultural identity as it instils places with standardized merchandizes, brands and firms. In fact, behind this economic-oriented definition of a global city, it is implied that globalization, in some ways, clashes with local culture. However, HongKongers should not be over-satisfied with the ranking. In these regards, no wonder will Hong Kong be ranked the fifth in the world. In short the status of a global city hinges on networking, be they abstract in the sense of providing service or concrete infrastructure. ![]() The concept of Global City introduced by Saskia Sassen, mentioned in her journal-The Global City: Introduction (The-Global-City-Brown.pdf), includes different organizing hypotheses in the global city model and they are related to the geographical dispersal of economic activities, the number of headquarters of large global firms, number of specialized service firms engaged in globalized market, number of high-level professionals and informalization of a range of economic activities. ![]() 5 thoughts on “ The Network of Global Cities – “Nylonkong”” ![]()
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