1. The Nature, Character and Spatial Distribution of World Cities

2. Categories of World Cities
Dominant world cities: New York, Tokyo, London, Paris – command and control centres of the world economy.
Major world city: e.g Singapore, Osaka
Secondary world city: e.g. Sydney, Chicago, Rome
Singapore

3. The Role of World Cities
Command and control centres for organising the world economy
Focuses on telecommunications technologies as well as infrastructure development
Powerful centres of cultural diversity
Sites of production for innovative new industries
Focuses for the location of finance and specialised service firms e.g. law, accounting, which have replaced manufacturing as the dominant economic activity of such cities.
Headquarters of major TNC’s

6. Answer questions 2,3,4,6 and 7 p123
Activity: q3, p123
P124 ‘Understanding the text’ question