ABSTRACT
The global spread of human beings is thought by many to be a phenomenon peculiar to the modern age, related to its technology and mode of production. Globalization was made possible by society's ability to fashion the bulk flow technologies necessary to move matter, energy, and information to virtually every inhabited space on the planet. These components include people, manufactured goods, services, raw materials, information and images, cultural object, financial capital, technology, and the waste created by production and consumption. Globalization holds major implications for all complex institutions, but especially for cities. Globalization holds major implications for all complex institutions, but especially for cities. For one thing, the component parts of global systems can be moved in greater volume and over greater distances than ever before, and they can be combined and recombined in new packages that are more complex than ever. These developments increase the complexity and diversity of any given local system.
