Cities such as New York, Tokyo and London are the centres of transnational corporate headquarters, of international finance, transnational institutions, and telecommunications. They are the dominant loci in the contemporary world economy, and the influence of a relatively small number of cities within world affairs has been a feature of the shift from an international [...]

Should Chennai be a global-city?

On August 22, 1639, Captain Francis Day of the British East India Company secured a piece of land at the fishing village of Madraspatnam through a firmaan (charter) granted by Damerla Venkatadri Nayak, in command at Chandragiri under the Vijayanagar kingdom.
This obscure fishing village today is Chennai Metropolis [...]

Mexico City is the capital city of Mexico It is the economic, industrial, and cultural center in the country, and the most populous city, with about 8,836,045 inhabitants in 2008. Greater Mexico City (Zona Metropolitana del Valle de México) incorporates 59 adjacent municipalities of Mexico State and 29 municipalities of the state of Hidalgo, according [...]