Final Test Global Cities and Social Spaces

A global city is a city which is a primary node in the global economic network, providing services to control and organise the global economy.

Places, where humans interact. In human society all 'space is social: it involves assigning more or less appropriated places to social relations. …social space has thus always been a social product', made by education.

Urban planning that ignores the social fabric of the city and does not foster an environment of control or appropriate behaviour.

Innovation needs public support. Deviant groups provide that by their “coolness”

Economic complexity makes innovation easier, because the available professional knowledge is broader and more diverse markets allow for more market niches.

Instant communication allows social interaction across the globe as long as you are connected.

“Universal niceness” that allows interaction across cultural and religious borders replaces strong and binding traditions.

A polarisation into low paid low skill jobs and extremely well paid high skill jobs and a vanishing of the middle class.

Viewing nations, many data averages very diverse settings (like Taipei and Miaoli).

Professional middle class formation and escape from poverty.

I think the development of communication technology is the main driving force behind the current globalization. It is precisely because of the advanced communication technology that people with different talents from all over the world can cooperate, even if they are in different locations, but they can communicate without hindrance. Communication technology also helps to break the traditional social structure. In the past, we could only communicate with people nearby, but with developed communication technology, he can help us meet different people and break the communication between the stratosphere (???).