IMPACT AND IMPLICATIONS OF GLOBALISATION FOR CITIES

Running Head: IMPACT AND IMPLICATIONS OF GLOBALISATION FOR CITIES
Impact and Implications of Globalisation for Cities
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Executive Summary
The aim of this paper is to look at the spatial pattern of urban space in Gulf cities and how
they change under the impact of globalisation. The impact of globalisation on Gulf city urban
spaces is explained in the paper considering Dubai city as a reference. The importance of
cities in the Global economy for better opportunities and prosperous life, people are moving
from rural to urban cities. The emergency of global cities can be better explained as cities that
focus on various network ports of various types and sizes, with a focus on financial and
information flows. The trends explain the emergence of network in certain cities that meets a
transnational corporation (TNC) financial and supply needs while other cities suffer from
deindustrialization and not become Global. This paper concluded that Globalisation has both
impact as positive and negative on the spatial structure of cities.

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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
Globalisation and Urban Economic Change..............................................................................4
Importance of Cities in the Global Economy.............................................................................5
The Emergence of Global Cities................................................................................................6
Relationship between Globalisation and Urban Spatial Structure.............................................7
Dubai: A Global City.................................................................................................................9
Conclusion................................................................................................................................12
Reference..................................................................................................................................13

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Introduction
Cities are part of a bigger community, whose spatial form is associated with the
economic, social, cultural, political and ecological structure of the society. Developments and
decisions influence urban space at a higher spatial level. The process of city development is
described as the activities of a group of person (customers, entrepreneurs, experts,
contractors, suppliers and financiers, etc.) who act with their capitals (finance, skills,
materials, etc.) to create a specific city and building environment room (Yigitcanlar and
Teriman 2015). Thus, urbanisation refers to the growing number of people living in city
areas. This mainly leads to the physical growth of urban areas, both horizontally and
vertically. The urban development should be traced at both national and global level.
Globally, the evolution of a city is classified under the concept of globalisation. Growth can
be explained as the resolution of the contradiction between the expansion of capital and its
national political and social formation a (Bende-Nabende 2017). It deals with the increasing
interaction of world trade, foreign and domestic investment, capital markets and the role of
government in the economy. It aims to include all countries in one economic unit, perhaps
without governments or borders. Cities in the Persian Gulf have been exposed to the dramatic
outside and western influences in the past few decades. The associated cultural colonization
and cultural imperialism of Arab and European populations and the rapid modernization of
recent changes and the internalization of culture, understanding and ideological planning
have influenced the development of spatial and urban spatial models (Golzari 2016). The
Gulf Region was formed by the agglomeration of GCC countries: Saudi Arabia, United Arab
Emirates, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman and Kuwait. Due to the discovery and use of oil, the Gulf
region has seen the rapid development and growth of the city since the 1970s. Big cities,
especially capital cities, are at the centre of this growth because of their political interests.