Indeed, the home of Big Ben is flourishing from iconic monuments, known places, typical food, music, ect… Its musical repertory is vast, the city inspired many singers and musicians like the Sex Pistols or The Clash. London was, according to CNN the third most visited city in the world in 2018, with almost 20M visitors per year.
Almost all of them are free and give a full and easy access to culture. Visitors can also discover the London history by visiting the 240 museums and galleries as the British Museum, the Natural History museum, the National Gallery or the Tate Britain. The city was created in the Antiquity so it contains a considerable history that tourists can delight for exemple, in architecture they can admire the St Paul’s Cathedral, built after the huge 1666 fire and located in the historic heart of the City. In order to understand better the concept of global cities and what defines such cities, we will study the case of the first global city in the world : London. Saskia Sassen who invented the concept of a “global cities” defines it as, in short, “an important point of financial and particular services production that is necessary for the future”. These exchanges are carried out in a few cities commonly called “global cities”.
They exchange knowledge, trade with each other, work together in order to create tomorrow’s world. Nowadays, people are more and more connected thanks to globalization. Metropolisation means the concentration of the most qualified population and activities in the largest cities. Globalisation encourages the process of metropolisation.
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