ABSTRACT
Sassika Sassen (2001) uses the term global cities to distinguish the contemporary leading cities from the ‘past’ world cities. They are ‘nodes’ in the network of globalization, places where the global economy is coordinated and reproduced. Similarly Castells (1996, p. 38) identifi es global cities as processes ‘by which centers of production and consumption of advanced services, and their ancillary local societies, are connected in a global network’. The main feature of this global network is the fact that it is independent from the State (Smith, 2005) and it indicates the rank of cities in transnational business connections (global cities being the top) as Friedmann (1986, p. 317) noted.
