This paper summarizes findings from a soon to be published manuscript entitled Global City Regions in Transition: The Struggle for Governability in London, New York, Paris and Tokyo by Paul Kantor, Christian Lefevre, Asato Saito, H. V. Savitch and Andy Thornley. Our survey demonstrates that...

Global city scholarship generally argues that, in order for an urban center to have global' status, it needs to be an international financial capital, connected to other agglomerations from its urban centers outwards (Child Hill & Kim 2000; Sassen 2013). This paper diverges from these approaches...