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Global Cities

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 2mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who popularized the term “global city” in the 1900’s ?

a)

Marshall Mcluhan

b)

Saskia Sassen

c)

Arjun Appadurai

2.

The global city can either be a place of commerce where production, manufacturing or distribution of goods and services from the said city trade to the rest of world.

a)

True

b)

False

3.

Most of today's major global cities are also world cities.

a)

True

b)

False

4.

Global cities are centers of economic activity but not authority.

a)

true

b)

false

5.

Global cities also have their undersides. They can be sites of great inequality and poverty as well as tremendous violence.

a)

True

b)

False

6.

Check all that applies: What are the salient features of Global Cities?

a)

International and national connectivity

b)

International cuisine

c)

International Culture

d)

International Infrastructure

e)

Global Economic and political importance

7.

What are the challenges of Global Cities

a)

Inequality

b)

Resources

c)

Technology

d)

Environmental Threats

e)

Governance

8.

Check that applies: Global Cities Key indicators

a)

· a. Skyscrapers

b)

b. Large metropolitan area

c)

·c. personal wealth; e.g., number of billionaires

d)

a and b only

9.

Reduction of green spaces with in cities is one of the ill effects of global cities.

a)

true

b)

false

10.

Global Cities

a)

Tokyo

b)

New York

c)

Shanghai

d)

Melbourne